I am a bit confused in regards to type aliases in Go.
I have read this related SO question - Why can I type alias functions and use them without casting?.
As far as I understand, unnamed and named variables are assignable to each other if the underlying structure is the same.
What I am trying to figure out, is can I extend unnamed types by naming them - something like this:
type Stack []string
func (s *Stack) Print() {
for _, a := range s {
fmt.Println(a)
}
}
This gives me the error cannot range over s (type *Stack)
Tried casting it to []string
, no go.
I know the below code works - is this the way I should do it? If so, I would love to know why the above is not working, and what is the use of declarations such as type Name []string
.
type Stack struct {
data []string
}
func (s *Stack) Print() {
for _, a := range s.data {
fmt.Println(a)
}
}
Answer
You should dereference the pointer s
type Stack []string
func (s *Stack) Print() {
for _, a := range *s {
fmt.Println(a)
}
}
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