From: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 22:42:14 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: reflect bug: NewZeroValue was refusing to create slices.
X-Git-Tag: weekly.2009-11-06~1591
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2d5d4a1b41743ce84a8cc08562d36d27a0a42e19;p=gostls13.git

reflect bug: NewZeroValue was refusing to create slices.
as far as I can tell there's no reason not to.

the Nillable test was succeeding because NewZeroValue
returned the nil interface value and the type guard
was letting it through.  the only change in the test is
more detail in the print.

R=r
DELTA=8  (0 added, 7 deleted, 1 changed)
OCL=29124
CL=29126
---

diff --git a/src/lib/reflect/all_test.go b/src/lib/reflect/all_test.go
index 8d4ea48651..ec770078d4 100644
--- a/src/lib/reflect/all_test.go
+++ b/src/lib/reflect/all_test.go
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ func TestIsNil(t *testing.T) {
 		ty := reflect.ParseTypeString("", ts);
 		v := reflect.NewZeroValue(ty);
 		if nilable, ok := v.(Nillable); !ok {
-			t.Errorf("%s is not nilable; should be", ts)
+			t.Errorf("%s %T is not nilable; should be", ts, v)
 		}
 	}
 	// Check the implementations
diff --git a/src/lib/reflect/value.go b/src/lib/reflect/value.go
index d20d8cbe01..e3258b11f3 100644
--- a/src/lib/reflect/value.go
+++ b/src/lib/reflect/value.go
@@ -876,13 +876,6 @@ func newValueAddr(typ Type, addr Addr) Value {
 
 // NewZeroValue creates a new, zero-initialized Value for the specified Type.
 func NewZeroValue(typ Type) Value {
-	// Some values cannot be made this way.
-	switch typ.Kind() {
-	case ArrayKind:
-		if typ.(ArrayType).IsSlice() {
-			return nil
-		}
-	}
 	size := typ.Size();
 	if size == 0 {
 		size = 1;