Methods with the same name in Golang

Golang  allows creating two or more methods with the same name in the same package, but the receivers of these methods must be of different types. This feature is not available in Go functions, which means you are not allowed to create methods with the same name in the same package, if you try to do so, the compiler will throw an error.

Methods with the same name in Golang

Syntax:

func(reciver_name_1 Type) method_name(parameter_list)(return_type){

// Code

}


func(reciver_name_2 Type) method_name(parameter_list)(return_type){

// Code

}

Let's look at the following example to better understand methods with the same name in Golang:

Example 1:

// Chương trình Go minh họa cách
// tạo các phương thức cùng tên
package main 

import "fmt"

// Tạo các cấu trúc
type student struct { 
	name string 
	branch string 
} 

type teacher struct { 
	language string 
	marks int
} 

// Các phương thức cùng tên nhưng với
// kiểu receiver khác nhau
func (s student) show() { 

	fmt.Println("Name of the Student:", s.name) 
	fmt.Println("Branch: ", s.branch) 
} 

func (t teacher) show() { 

	fmt.Println("Language:", t.language) 
	fmt.Println("Student Marks: ", t.marks) 
} 

// Hàm chính
func main() { 

	// Khởi tạo các giá trị
	// of the structures 
	val1 := student{"Rohit", "EEE"} 

	val2 := teacher{"Java", 50} 

	// Gọi các phương thức
	val1.show() 
	val2.show() 
} 

Result:

Name of the Student: Rohit
Branch:  EEE
Language: Java
Student Marks:  50

Explanation: In the above example, we have two methods with the same name i.e. show() but with different types. Here, the first show() method contains s of type student and the second show() method contains t of type teacher . And in the main() function, we call both the methods with the help of their respective structure variables. If you try to create these show() methods with the same type, then the compiler will throw an error.

Example 2:

// Chương trình Go minh họa cách
// tạo các phương thức cùng tên
// với receiver không phải struct
package main 

import "fmt"

type value_1 string 
type value_2 int

// Tạo hàm cùng tên với
// các kiểu receiver không phải struct khác nhau
func (a value_1) display() value_1 { 

	return a + "forGeeks"
} 

func (p value_2) display() value_2 { 

	return p + 298 
} 

// Hàm chính
func main() { 

	// Khởi tạo giá trị này
	res1 := value_1("Geeks") 
	res2 := value_2(234) 

	// Hiện kết quả
	fmt.Println("Result 1: ", res1.display()) 
	fmt.Println("Result 2: ", res2.display()) 
} 

Result:

Result 1:  GeeksforGeeks
Result 2: 532

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