Error: struct Type is not an expression

The error is on this line var s = Salutation The thing to the right of the = must evaluate to a value. Salutation is a type, not value. Here are three ways to declare s: var s Salutation // variable declaration using a type var s = Salutation{} // variable declaration using a value … Read more

Import struct from another package and file golang

In Go you don’t import types or functions, you import packages (see Spec: Import declarations). An example import declaration: import “container/list” And by importing a package you get access to all of its exported identifiers and you can refer to them as packagename.Identifiername, for example: var mylist *list.List = list.New() // Or simply: l := … Read more

Initialize nested struct definition

Your Contact is a field with anonymous struct type. As such, you have to repeat the type definition: s := &Sender{ BankCode: “BC”, Name: “NAME”, Contact: struct { Name string Phone string }{ Name: “NAME”, Phone: “PHONE”, }, } But in most cases it’s better to define a separate type as rob74 proposed.

Swift and mutating struct

The mutability attribute is marked on a storage (constant or variable), not a type. You can think struct has two modes: mutable and immutable. If you assign a struct value to an immutable storage (we call it let or constant in Swift) the value becomes immutable mode, and you cannot change any state in the … Read more

Go Interface Fields

It is definitely a neat trick. However, exposing pointers still makes direct access to data available, so it only buys you limited additional flexibility for future changes. Also, Go conventions do not require you to always put an abstraction in front of your data attributes. Taking those things together, I would tend towards one extreme … Read more

How to check for an empty struct?

You can use == to compare with a zero value composite literal because all fields in Session are comparable: if (Session{}) == session { fmt.Println(“is zero value”) } playground example Because of a parsing ambiguity, parentheses are required around the composite literal in the if condition. The use of == above applies to structs where … Read more

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