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Why Golang ast.Field can have multiple names?

Just playing around with golang go/ast package.

I don’t quite understand why ast.Field can have multiple names?

type Field struct {
    Doc     *CommentGroup // associated documentation; or nil
    Names   []*Ident      // field/method/(type) parameter names; or nil
    Type    Expr          // field/method/parameter type; or nil
    Tag     *BasicLit     // field tag; or nil
    Comment *CommentGroup // line comments; or nil
}

Upd. Thanks to the @kurtis-rader

I want to create cli tool that will generate struct conversion functions from one struct type to another. Here in this place I need to choose which name of Field to pass into struct literal as a key and value

Solution:

ast.Field represents a field declaration (and other things with a similar syntax). A field declaration can have more than one identifier.

Here is the syntax from the specification:

StructType    = "struct" "{" {     FieldDecl ";" } "}" .
FieldDecl     = (IdentifierList Type |     EmbeddedField) [ Tag ] .
EmbeddedField = [ "*" ] TypeName [ TypeArgs ] .
Tag          = string_lit .

Example: