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Author: denevell

golang-deferencing.md

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+Title: Golang: The lack of deferencing
+Tags: golang,golang-pointers
+
+Whether you use a value or a pointer or reference to value, you do not need to deference, as you do in some languages.
+
+Golang will understand that you want to access the value of the pointer, not the pointer itself. 
+
+Say you have this struct.
+
+		type NewType struct {
+			name string
+		}
+
+Then you make a reference to it with the & operator. You now have a pointer in 'tp'.
+
+		var t NewType 
+		tp := &t
+
+You can see below that you can access the attribute of the struct simply with the dot operator - no need to deference.
+
+		tp.name = "Hello"
+
+As below, you can still deference if you want. It's just not needed.
+
+		fmt.Println(tp.name)
+		fmt.Println((*tp).name)
+
+The same is true for accessing methods on an interface. 'value.Method()' works the same as 'pointer.Method()'.