[go-nuts] Re: Why not a mixture of value and pointer receiver?

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On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 5:59:51 PM UTC-4, Xinhu Liu 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?
>

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[go-nuts] Re: Why not a mixture of value and pointer receiver?

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Yes I agree with you. It's confusing and so hard to understand.

2019年1月23日水曜日 6時59分51秒 UTC+9 Xinhu Liu:
>
> 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?
>

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