On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 3:09 AM, T L <tapir....@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 5:41:32 AM UTC+8, xiio...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> It doesn't/wouldn't seem to be any technical issue implementing methods on >> any depth of pointer type .. as demonstrated in the unsafe example linked >> from a previous related discussion (ie >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/qf76N-uDcHA/DTCDNgaF_p4J ) >> >> It's not allowed by the specification - and surely the (sanity) reason for >> this is that if you have pointers to pointers in this context you're >> probably doing something wrong/unnecessary. > > > The spec never says **T values can't call methods of *T.
There is, of course, no reason for the spec to say that. The spec defines method sets for types. A type **T can never have any methods. Ian -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
