On Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:58:01 UTC, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> In general this is not possible in Go. Sorry.
>
> If you can restrict yourself to exported package-scope variables, then
> you can probably use the debug/pe (on Windows) package to look up the
> symbol name and use that
I have a string value that I’d like to convert into an actual object in my
running program. The string would be read from a configuration file. For
example, the string "os:Stdin" should be processable somehow to get the
actual variable os.Stdin. Is that possible in Go? The reflect package seems
