moretypes: explain pointer indirection Fixes golang/go#14040 Change-Id: I377207e2ce3f41736368a5fbd4ba11bbf2e098da Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/19941 Reviewed-by: Francesc Campoy Flores <campoy@golang.org>
diff --git a/content/moretypes.article b/content/moretypes.article index 904a578..958d496 100644 --- a/content/moretypes.article +++ b/content/moretypes.article
@@ -47,7 +47,10 @@ Struct fields can be accessed through a struct pointer. -The indirection through the pointer is transparent. +To access the field `X` of a structwhen we have the struct pointer `p` we could +write `(*p).X`. +However, that notation is cumbersome, so the language permits us instead to +write just `p.X`, without the explicit dereference. .play moretypes/struct-pointers.go