Evan Hicks
—The error: ./prog.go:23:7: cannot use b (type Bar) as type Foo in argument to Fizzy: Bar does not implement Foo (Fizz method has pointer receiver)
package main import ( "fmt" ) type Foo interface { Fizz() } type Bar struct {} func (b *Bar) Fizz() { fmt.Println("fizz") } func Fizzy(foo Foo) { foo.Fizz() } func main() { b := Bar{} Fizzy(b) }
This error happens because the pointer to a type is its own unique type. In this example, *Bar
is a different type to Bar
. The method receiver Fizz
is defined on the *Bar
type, not the Bar
type. So only *Bar
satisfies the interface Foo
.
The fix:
package main import ( "fmt" ) type Foo interface { Fizz() } type Bar struct {} func (b *Bar) Fizz() { fmt.Println("fizz") } func Fizzy(foo Foo) { foo.Fizz() } func main() { b := &Bar{} Fizzy(b) }
Change b
to a pointer to a Bar
. Since *Bar
satisfies the interface Foo
, b
can now be used as a function argument to Fizzy
.
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