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reflect: document FieldByName shortcoming 

Fixes #4876.

R=golang-dev, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/13701044
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Russ Cox 2013-09-13 13:56:39 -04:00
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src/pkg/reflect/type.go
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@ -188,6 +188,14 @@ type Type interface {
uncommon() *uncommonType
}
// BUG(rsc): FieldByName and related functions consider struct field names to be equal
// if the names are equal, even if they are unexported names originating
// in different packages. The practical effect of this is that the result of
// t.FieldByName("x") is not well defined if the struct type t contains
// multiple fields named x (embedded from different packages).
// FieldByName may return one of the fields named x or may report that there are none.
// See golang.org/issue/4876 for more details.
/*
* These data structures are known to the compiler (../../cmd/gc/reflect.c).
* A few are known to ../runtime/type.go to convey to debuggers.