On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 4:59 PM Dan Kortschak
<dan.kortsc...@adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
>
> They are not inaccessible, they are just inaccessible via reflect (at
> the moment).
>
> https://play.golang.org/p/_EnLPRvrHAz
>
> fmt uses reflect to get the keys and values. With the addition of a map
> iterator type in reflect (https://tip.golang.org/pkg/reflect/#MapIter),
> the behaviour you see now will change.

Thanks, that makes sense.


>
> On Sun, 2018-10-21 at 16:33 -0600, Burak Serdar wrote:
> > Someone asked a question a few days ago related to this, and it's
> > been
> > bugging me since then.
> >
> > Is this an undefined behavior according to the spec?
> >
> > https://play.golang.org/p/RqgD492EZ9U
> >
> > The code results in a map with two NaN keys, both of which have nil
> > values. I think having two NaN keys is reasonable, but I would expect
> > them to be non-nil when iterated,
> >
> > Since they are inaccessible, would those map values be garbage
> > collected? Or is there a hidden pointer somewhere in there where no
> > one can reach?
> >

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