Sorry, I included a typo. I have edited my reply below to fix it. On Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 8:25:47 PM UTC-7 Kevin Chowski wrote:
> It's not clear to me what problem you are solving. Can you clarify *why* > you want to do this? > > For what it's worth, this seems correct to me: a function defined in > package X should not be able to access the unexported fields of a struct in > package Y. If you embed a 'byte' into a struct, that is an *un*exported > field and should not be accessible to other packages. > > > On Tuesday, November 16, 2021 at 3:51:39 PM UTC-7 oxc...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Hello, my issue is similar to: >> >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38784963/exporting-functions-with-anonymous-struct-as-a-parameter-cannot-use-value-type >> >> In this particular case, it is fixed by exporting the fields capitalizing >> the field name. But, what if the struct fields are also anonymous? >> >> main.go: >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> package main >> >> import "a/b" >> >> func f(s struct{ byte }) {} >> >> func main() { >> s := struct{ byte }{} >> f(s) // This works >> b.F(s) // This gives an argument type error >> } >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> >> b/b.go: >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> package b >> >> func F(c struct{ byte }) { >> } >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> >> By building this code, we get the following compiler error: >> `cannot use s (type struct { byte }) as type struct { byte } in argument >> to b.F` >> >> In my opinion, it should be allowed to export the unnamed (anonymous) >> types so the struct can be used anywhere else. Opinions on this? >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/8c3f00b5-aa62-417f-becc-3ab5dce6e466n%40googlegroups.com.
