Accessing an anonymous struct or, "missing type in composite literal"

[Torrance Hodgson]

Hi all,

I have a struct type that contains an anonmous struct within it. See http://play.golang.org/p/sjuv7krgp6

I'd like to be able to instantiate this struct, but I'm unsure how to do this. At the moment I'm getting a "missing type in composite literal" error — but short of creating an additional type, I'm not sure how to name this anonymous struct.

Is what I'm trying to do possible?

Torrance

[Dave Cheney]

A possible solution,

http://play.golang.org/p/vLJRxnuAKz

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[Torrance Hodgson]

Thanks - that's the solution I'd just come to. It's a bit verbose and will soon get very non-DRY, so I might as well name the inner struct.

Torrance

[Dave Cheney]

Yeah, every time I have tried this, usually in a test, the verbosity
quickly drives me towards declaring a new struct. It can be done with
inline anon declarations, but the readability hit rarely justifies the
cleverness.