Struct literals and embedding

[Josh Bleecher Snyder]

Can anyone give me some insight as to the design decision behind why you can't create a struct literal with direct references to embedded struct members?

See:

http://play.golang.org/p/2d99TRVqKf

It feels (naively) to me like the second example there really ought to work.

Thanks!

-josh

[Rob Pike]

It might one day, but as it stands the requirement to provide more
information is more robust against changes in the data types.

-rob

[Josh Bleecher Snyder]

Makes sense. Thanks!

-josh

[Kevin Gillette]

Also note you can save a bit of redundant code by using type inference -- the main function code was modified in http://play.golang.org/p/SmeeROkVaa to demonstrate this.