All great answers and thank you for the spec link! On Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 8:07:42 PM UTC+1 Diogo Lisboa wrote:
> You have to remember that methods are just regular functions with the > receiver as the first parameter. From the spec ( > https://go.dev/ref/spec#Method_declarations): > > > A method is a function <https://go.dev/ref/spec#Function_declarations> with > a receiver. > > This mean that if you detach the method from the receiver, which > time.Time.Compare does, then it requires two arguments instead of one. > > a := time.Now() > b := a.Add(1 * time.Hour) > cmp := time.Time.Compare > cmp(a) // error: not enough arguments in call to cmp > cmp(a, b) // ok > > https://go.dev/play/p/x3ZGIhQ2TNE > > > Diogo Lisboa > > On Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 2:57:35 PM UTC-3 cpu...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Sorry for not finding a better than this click bait subject. >> >> In https://github.com/golang/go/issues/62642 this suggestion was made: >> >> slices.SortFunc(times, time.Time.Compare) >> >> It's totally unclear to me how Time.Compare matches the compare func(a,b >> T) int signature? I assume it's something from the golang spec, but which >> part? >> >> Are there other typical uses of this capability that are common? >> >> Cheers, >> Andi >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/b8199569-d85d-4138-9465-3d32d2dbca3en%40googlegroups.com.
