From 5c7a005266f84ecea26859619630a862eccc0d48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 13:21:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] spec: ignore struct tags when converting structs

This is a backwards-compatible language change.

Per the proposal (#16085), the rules for conversions are relaxed
such that struct tags in any of the structs involved in the conversion
are ignored (recursively).

Because this is loosening the existing rules, code that compiled so
far will continue to compile.

For #16085.
Fixes #6858.

Change-Id: I0feef651582db5f23046a2331fc3f179ae577c45
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/24190
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
---
 doc/go_spec.html | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/go_spec.html b/doc/go_spec.html
index 1d0ea22c7c..6e07c945e1 100644
--- a/doc/go_spec.html
+++ b/doc/go_spec.html
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!--{
 	"Title": "The Go Programming Language Specification",
-	"Subtitle": "Version of September 1, 2016",
+	"Subtitle": "Version of October 4, 2016",
 	"Path": "/ref/spec"
 }-->
 
@@ -3837,10 +3837,12 @@ in any of these cases:
 	to <code>T</code>.
 	</li>
 	<li>
-	<code>x</code>'s type and <code>T</code> have identical
+	ignoring struct tags (see below),
+	<code>x</code>'s type and <code>T</code> have <a href="#Type_identity">identical</a>
 	<a href="#Types">underlying types</a>.
 	</li>
 	<li>
+	ignoring struct tags (see below),
 	<code>x</code>'s type and <code>T</code> are unnamed pointer types
 	and their pointer base types have identical underlying types.
 	</li>
@@ -3860,6 +3862,31 @@ in any of these cases:
 	</li>
 </ul>
 
+<p>
+<a href="#Struct_types">Struct tags</a> are ignored when comparing struct types
+for identity for the purpose of conversion:
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+type Person struct {
+	Name    string
+	Address *struct {
+		Street string
+		City   string
+	}
+}
+
+var data *struct {
+	Name    string `json:"name"`
+	Address *struct {
+		Street string `json:"street"`
+		City   string `json:"city"`
+	} `json:"address"`
+}
+
+var person = (*Person)(data)  // ignoring tags, the underlying types are identical
+</pre>
+
 <p>
 Specific rules apply to (non-constant) conversions between numeric types or
 to and from a string type.
-- 
2.48.1