Understand this code (golang), double parantheses ()() - go

Question

I was wondering if someone can explain this syntax to me. In the google maps go api, they have
type Client struct {
httpClient *http.Client
apiKey string
baseURL string
clientID string
signature []byte
requestsPerSecond int
rateLimiter chan int
}
// NewClient constructs a new Client which can make requests to the Google Maps WebService APIs.
func NewClient(options ...ClientOption) (*Client, error) {
c := &Client{requestsPerSecond: defaultRequestsPerSecond}
WithHTTPClient(&http.Client{})(c) //???????????
for _, option := range options {
err := option(c)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
}
if c.apiKey == "" && (c.clientID == "" || len(c.signature) == 0) {
return nil, errors.New("maps: API Key or Maps for Work credentials missing")
}
// Implement a bursty rate limiter.
// Allow up to 1 second worth of requests to be made at once.
c.rateLimiter = make(chan int, c.requestsPerSecond)
// Prefill rateLimiter with 1 seconds worth of requests.
for i := 0; i < c.requestsPerSecond; i++ {
c.rateLimiter <- 1
}
go func() {
// Wait a second for pre-filled quota to drain
time.Sleep(time.Second)
// Then, refill rateLimiter continuously
for _ = range time.Tick(time.Second / time.Duration(c.requestsPerSecond)) {
c.rateLimiter <- 1
}
}()
return c, nil
}
// WithHTTPClient configures a Maps API client with a http.Client to make requests over.
func WithHTTPClient(c *http.Client) ClientOption {
return func(client *Client) error {
if _, ok := c.Transport.(*transport); !ok {
t := c.Transport
if t != nil {
c.Transport = &transport{Base: t}
} else {
c.Transport = &transport{Base: http.DefaultTransport}
}
}
client.httpClient = c
return nil
}
}
And this is the line I don't understand in NewClient
WithHTTPClient(&http.Client{})(c)
Why are there two ()()?
I see that WithHTTPClient takes in a *http.Client which that line does, but then it also passes in a pointer to the client struct declared above it?

Answer 1

WithHTTPClient returns a function, ie:
func WithHTTPClient(c *http.Client) ClientOption {
return func(client *Client) error {
....
return nil
}
}
WithHTTPClient(&http.Client{})(c) is just calling that function with c (a pointer to a Client) as parameter. It could be written as:
f := WithHTTPClient(&http.Client{})
f(c)