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| author | Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org> | 2016-10-19 08:48:25 -0400 |
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| committer | Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org> | 2016-10-19 13:32:51 +0000 |
| commit | f2f8d58b92cd7fd9616c98fb012467656de5a3cb (patch) | |
| tree | d3450e27fc2b473d787c1f3a2af414730e818e62 /src | |
| parent | 2f7f679c79009137bd34fcc33a6d3a6762f45e75 (diff) | |
| download | go-f2f8d58b92cd7fd9616c98fb012467656de5a3cb.tar.xz | |
reflect: update FieldByNameFunc comment
This was supposed to be in CL 31354
but was dropped due to a Git usage error.
For #16573.
Change-Id: I3d99087c8efc8cbc016c55e8365d0005f79d1b2f
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/31461
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/reflect/type.go | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/reflect/type.go b/src/reflect/type.go index a9793978f7..89e02bccd7 100644 --- a/src/reflect/type.go +++ b/src/reflect/type.go @@ -160,7 +160,11 @@ type Type interface { // that satisfies the match function and a boolean indicating if // the field was found. // - // If multiple fields match the func, they cancel each other + // FieldByNameFunc considers the fields in the struct itself + // and then the fields in any anonymous structs, in breadth first order, + // stopping at the shallowest nesting depth containing one or more + // fields satisfying the match function. If multiple fields at that depth + // satisfy the match function, they cancel each other // and FieldByNameFunc returns no match. // This behavior mirrors Go's handling of name lookup in // structs containing anonymous fields. |