Go: Pointer to methods

Sometimes I need a pointer to a method that is not bound to an explicit object.

Method pointers are just function pointers where the first argument is the type.

Imagine we have a Pet type with a Speak method:

type Pet interface {
    Speak() string
}

Here’s how we would declare, assign, and invoke the pointer

var fp func(Pet) string
fp = Pet.Speak

pet := GetPetFromSomewhere()
fmt.Sprintf("The pet says: %s\n", fp(pet))

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