this says "increment the data c points at" not "increment the pointer"
the function is returning an int instead of a Count
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 10:23 AM <christof...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Please help me understand the below:
> I got this from "The Zoo of Go Functions"
>
> type Count int
>
> func (c *Count) Incr() int {
> *c = *c + 1 //why use *c and not just c, based on (c *Count) c is already
> a pointer?
> return int(*c) //why cast to int, c is already of type int?
> }
>
> Christof
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