On Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at 10:09:44 PM UTC+11
axel.wa...@googlemail.com wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:09 AM shan...@gmail.com
> wrote:
>
>> This seems to me to be the better solution (but it's still in the
>> pipeline?) https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19367
>> an unsafe, rath
On Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at 9:41:09 PM UTC+11 Jan Mercl wrote:
Thank you for taking the time to answer, I'm still a little confused and
have inlined where that confusion is below.
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:09 AM shan...@gmail.com
> wrote:
>
> > My confusion is this, the comment says (
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:09 AM shan...@gmail.com
wrote:
> This seems to me to be the better solution (but it's still in the
> pipeline?) https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19367
> an unsafe, rather than reflect, access to the slice structure, which
> allows a user to do.. interesting things to
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:09 AM shan...@gmail.com wrote:
> My confusion is this, the comment says (very clearly)
> It's not safe, nor portable, and may change (although I have had it pointed
> out to me that the comparability guarantee may contradict this)
It does not. When there exists explic
A bit of attention has been directed at slices recently, with a few high
profile blogs shining a healthy light on them (they can be traps for young
players!)
I'm a bit confused about SliceHeader as found in the reflect package
(https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/reflect/value.go#L1986