将命名类型分配给文字类型值

Question

Go newbie here. I am trying to assign an uint64 value to a variable of a named type with underlying type unit64. Compiler is unhappy and can't see the two types are exactly the same. What's the right way to do this?

package main

import "fmt"
import "math/rand"

type myType uint64

var x myType


func main() {
    x = rand.Uint64()
    fmt.Println(x)
}

This throws compiler error:

./prog.go:12:4: cannot use rand.Uint64() (type uint64) as type myType in assignment

Answer 1

You can convert it myType(rand.Uint64()). Usefull links: Type Assertion in Go and Type Conversion in Go as well as an excellent answer in this stack overflow question "How to cast to a type alias in go"