Let's say we have this kind of a struct (one of the simplest ever):
type some struct{
I uint32
}
And we want to have a variable of that type and to atomically increment in for loop (possibly in another goroutine but now the story is different). I do the following:
q := some{0}
for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
atomic.AddUint32(&q.I,1) // increment [1]
fmt.Println(q.I)
}
We're getting what we'd expect, so far so good, but if we declare a function for that type as follows:
func (sm some) Add1(){
atomic.AddUint32(&sm.I,1)
}
and call this function in the above sample (line [1]) the value isn't incremented and we just get zeros. The question is obvious - why?
This has to be something basic but since I am new to go I don't realize it.