[go-nuts] Re: Cannot take the adress of.....

2018-02-27 Thread Krzysztof Kowalczyk
This is a shallow, visual symmetry. Per Go spec, Foo{} and 5 are not related in a meaningful way. Foo{} denotes a runtime operation that creates a new instance of Foo struct, and & takes an address of this instance. 5 is an integer literal https://golang.org/ref/spec#Integer_literals. While i

[go-nuts] Re: Cannot take the adress of.....

2018-02-27 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> You can't take the address of the return value of a function or a > conversion (which is conceptually just a function) because it doesn't > have a location in memory and thus doesn't have an address. I've never understood the reason for this limitation. I'd expect the compiler to box any value

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Cannot take the adress of.....

2018-02-27 Thread Burak Serdar
On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 10:01 PM, wrote: > or similar simpler example : > > this works : > > var j int = 42 > var p *int > p=&j // this works > fmt.Println(*p) > > > > var j int = 42 > var p *int > p=&int(j) //this doesn't work > fmt.Print

[go-nuts] Re: Cannot take the adress of.....

2018-02-26 Thread k1attila1
Thank you Sir 2018. február 27., kedd 5:56:57 UTC+1 időpontban k1at...@gmail.com a következőt írta: > > Hi > > I have seen this example somewhere but i modified it : > > package main > > import "fmt" > > type notifier interface { > notify() > } > > type duration int > > func (d *duration) notif

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Cannot take the adress of.....

2018-02-26 Thread Jesse McNelis
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 4:01 PM, wrote: > var j int = 42 > var p *int > p=&int(j) //this doesn't work > fmt.Println(*p) > Yep, this is true. You can't take the address of the return value of a function or a conversion (which is conceptually just a function) because it doe

[go-nuts] Re: Cannot take the adress of.....

2018-02-26 Thread k1attila1
or similar simpler example : this works : var j int = 42 var p *int p=&j // this works fmt.Println(*p) var j int = 42 var p *int p=&int(j) //this doesn't work fmt.Println(*p) 2018. február 27., kedd 5:56:57 UTC+1 időpontban k1at..