net/rpc: fix method requirement docs

The receiver itself is not transmitted and does not need to be
marshalable by encoding/gob.

Fixes #16803.

Change-Id: I42a3603fb7d3b36c97dcc2e51a398cd65ec3227d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/32094
Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>

diff --git a/src/net/rpc/server.go b/src/net/rpc/server.go
index 83d9aac10c487f746d4973bcf9911046ac2e1011..18ea629b0d6e0548d090b8a19f24c4f08100bad8 100644 (file)
--- a/src/net/rpc/server.go
+++ b/src/net/rpc/server.go
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
                func (t *T) MethodName(argType T1, replyType *T2) error
 
-       where T, T1 and T2 can be marshaled by encoding/gob.
+       where T1 and T2 can be marshaled by encoding/gob.
        These requirements apply even if a different codec is used.
        (In the future, these requirements may soften for custom codecs.)