Go Methods

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Overview

Go allows associating arbitrary behavior with built-in or custom types, which contributes to the object-oriented character of the language. Note that Go is not a fully object-oriented language, it misses type inheritance, for example.

Syntactically, the association of behavior with a type is done by declaring a function (the behavior) and adding to it a receiver type (the type).

func (t T) FunctionName(parameters) (return type){
 ...
}

As result of this association, the function becomes a method of the type.