On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 9:48 AM Axel Wagner
<axel.wagner...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 11:39 PM Amit Saha <amitsaha...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Is it fair to say then that any user-defined type here is acceptable as a
>> key?
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> No. You can create a user-defined type out of *any* type T, by just writing
> `type X T`. In particular, you can write `type X func()` and get an
> incomparable user-defined type.
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> I highly recommend sticking to the recommendation from the docs: Use `type
> ctxKey struct{}` as a key type and `ctxKey{}` as the key - it's comparable
> and the only value equal to `ctxKey{}` is `ctxKey{}`, which gives exactly the
> desirable semantics. And as it's zero-sized, it also doesn't occur any
> allocation (at least with gc, all zero-sized objects have the same address).
> You could also use `[0]int` or similar, but `struct{}` is very common for
> use-cases like this.
Thanks. If I wanted to have a struct like this
type myReqContext struct {
ID1 string
ID2 string
}
Would the correct key and value be: myReqContext{}, myReqContext{ID1:
"abcd", ID2: "defg"}?
The key isn't zero value any more, or is it? If so, should I have a
dedicated empty struct for the key?
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>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Amit.
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