On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 9:53 PM, Randall O'Reilly wrote:
> On Mar 5, 2018, at 10:32 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>>
>> Go doesn't have anything like inheritance in C++. What you are
>> calling the "true underlying type" simply doesn't exist in Go. Go has
>> embedded fields, and methods of embedde
On Mar 5, 2018, at 10:32 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
> Go doesn't have anything like inheritance in C++. What you are
> calling the "true underlying type" simply doesn't exist in Go. Go has
> embedded fields, and methods of embedded fields are promoted to become
> methods of the outer type in
On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 8:08 PM, Randall O'Reilly wrote:
> Thank you for that clarification of what is happening under the hood.
>
> Nevertheless, I do think there are many cases where it would be very valuable
> to have access through reflect of the true underlying type of the receiver
> struct.
Thank you for that clarification of what is happening under the hood.
Nevertheless, I do think there are many cases where it would be very valuable
to have access through reflect of the true underlying type of the receiver
struct. This is evident in that stack overflow question, the *JSON code,
