> That snippet is helpful, but given https://golang.org/issue/40965 I'm
> concerned user defined aliases will suffer the same issue when it's
> resolved.
I would be very surprised if that affects Type() to be honest because
that issue is about error message reporting, i.e. "unwinding" to
actual
On Fri, 2020-08-21 at 21:51 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Ian.
> >
> > No that doesn't work. For example with type byte, you get back the
> > byte
> > name.
> >
> > https://play.golang.org/p/PPjHBotsIsw
>
> The underlying type of byte is indeed byte. What are you hoping for?
>
On Sat, 2020-08-22 at 06:00 +0100, Paul Jolly wrote:
> I think you were unlucky with your choice of type to experiment with.
> My understanding is that byte is special cased, despite being an
> alias:
>
>
I think you were unlucky with your choice of type to experiment with.
My understanding is that byte is special cased, despite being an
alias:
https://github.com/golang/go/blob/13e41bcde8c788224f4896503b56d42614e0bf97/src/go/types/universe.go#L25
Consider instead
On Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 9:16 PM 'Dan Kortschak' via golang-nuts <
golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-08-15 at 21:44 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 3:45 PM 'Dan Kortschak' via golang-nuts
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I would like to be able to obtain the
On Sat, 2020-08-15 at 21:44 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 3:45 PM 'Dan Kortschak' via golang-nuts
> wrote:
> >
> > I would like to be able to obtain the original type for an alias
> > given
> > a source input. I can see in "go/types" that it's possible to know
> >
On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 3:45 PM 'Dan Kortschak' via golang-nuts
wrote:
>
> I would like to be able to obtain the original type for an alias given
> a source input. I can see in "go/types" that it's possible to know
> whether a named type is an alias by `typ.Obj().IsAlias()`, but I cannot
> see
I would like to be able to obtain the original type for an alias given
a source input. I can see in "go/types" that it's possible to know
whether a named type is an alias by `typ.Obj().IsAlias()`, but I cannot
see how to obtain the actual original type unless it is an alias for a
basic type.
Can
