I basically need something like this:
var obj = &Person{Name: "John"} // I don't know what type obj will be
everytime
var newObj interface{}
initNewObj(obj) // now newObj is an empty object of type *Person
On Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at 10:21:01 AM UTC+3, Dave Cheney wrote:
>
> TL;DR a shallow copy is easy, but it's almost never what you want.
>
> https://play.golang.org/p/wpWN3Znop8
>
> Needing to copy an arbitrary value is usually an anti pattern as values
> can contain references to other values, which contain references to other
> values, which contain references to other values, sometimes leading back to
> the previous values.
>
> On Tuesday, 2 August 2016 17:13:21 UTC+10, Rayland wrote:
>>
>> Let's say I have an object A of some type. Is there a way to create a new
>> object B with the same type as A without knowing the type of A in advance?
>>
>
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