On the other side maybe confusion on the part of code writers if they use pointer receiver because of consistency instead of needing it?
Am Mi., 23. Jan. 2019 um 00:01 Uhr schrieb Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org >: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 1:59 PM Xinhu Liu <xinhu.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > In "A Tour of Go" I read: > > > >> In general, all methods on a given type should have either value or > pointer receivers, but not a mixture of both. > > > > > > But why not? > > > > Methods having value receiver can be called by both value type and > pointer type. The same is for methods having pointer receiver. > > > > What is disadvantages of mixing value and pointer receiver? > > Confusion on the part of the code reader. > > 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.
