From: Sebastien Binet <seb.binet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 07:25:30 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: reflect: document StructOf embedded fields limitation
X-Git-Tag: go1.7beta2~72
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=905ced0e6ae33dca7ae6aa984d50cb02287952b1;p=gostls13.git

reflect: document StructOf embedded fields limitation

This CL documents that StructOf currently does not generate wrapper
methods for embedded fields.

Updates #15924

Change-Id: I932011b1491d68767709559f515f699c04ce70d4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/23681
Reviewed-by: David Crawshaw <crawshaw@golang.org>
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diff --git a/src/reflect/type.go b/src/reflect/type.go
index 1dff74df62..c9e14707fa 100644
--- a/src/reflect/type.go
+++ b/src/reflect/type.go
@@ -2351,6 +2351,9 @@ type structTypeFixed32 struct {
 // StructOf returns the struct type containing fields.
 // The Offset and Index fields are ignored and computed as they would be
 // by the compiler.
+//
+// StructOf currently does not generate wrapper methods for embedded fields.
+// This limitation may be lifted in a future version.
 func StructOf(fields []StructField) Type {
 	var (
 		hash       = fnv1(0, []byte("struct {")...)