struct 's field and method name can not be same？ why？

[Brain Wu]

I have a article struct 

type Article struct{

Tags []Tag

}

func (a *Article) Tags() {

}

it's has a error that "type Article has both field and method named Tags" when i build it.

Why is  such a design?

[Jan Mercl]

Consider

var v Article
var u = v.Tags

What type is u? '[]Tag' or 'func(*Article)'?

-j

[吴俊滨]

i got it. thank you very much

[chris dollin]

As a general rule [1], Go doesn't let you declare the same name more
than once in the same scope, so that if you have the name, you know
what thing it is.

Similarly Go doesn't allow function/method overloading.

Chris

[1] Apart from the redeclaration feature of :=, a topic of hot discussion.

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Chris "allusive" Dollin