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| author | Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org> | 2016-10-20 15:08:40 -0400 |
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| committer | Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org> | 2016-10-26 13:56:45 +0000 |
| commit | 4b9490ee72c225d4d82cb4896f95c757ee8fef89 (patch) | |
| tree | 1e9a73938fc01397dbc72e90d68f71756fe1c4c1 /src/fmt | |
| parent | 59b0e147603e4a3a6170b56e30383a94e157e37a (diff) | |
| download | go-4b9490ee72c225d4d82cb4896f95c757ee8fef89.tar.xz | |
fmt: document that unexported struct fields don't get the String/Error treatment
Fixes #17409.
Change-Id: Ib49ff4a467431b5c1e6637e5144979cf0bfba489
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/31817
Reviewed-by: Martin Möhrmann <martisch@uos.de>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Smith <quentin@golang.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/fmt')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/fmt/doc.go | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/fmt/doc.go b/src/fmt/doc.go index f8ae4e72f9..a2faecb36e 100644 --- a/src/fmt/doc.go +++ b/src/fmt/doc.go @@ -174,6 +174,9 @@ that type has a String method. Such pathologies are rare, however, and the package does not protect against them. + When printing a struct, fmt cannot and therefore does not invoke + formatting methods such as Error or String on unexported fields. + Explicit argument indexes: In Printf, Sprintf, and Fprintf, the default behavior is for each |