On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Manlio Perillo <manlio.peri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Il giorno giovedì 4 agosto 2016 17:54:33 UTC+2, Dave Cheney ha scritto: >> >> Fwiw, io.EOf can be converted to a constant, all the tests pass. But that >> would change the type of an exported symbol, so it's not possible. > > > Even though the type is not exported? > I can't see where the https://golang.org/doc/go1compat document forbids this > case.
Changing the type of io.EOF so that it is no longer type `error` would break this package. package p import "io" var P *error = &io.EOF Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.