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go/types: rejects type assertion incorrectly #8561

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adonovan opened this issue Aug 20, 2014 · 4 comments
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go/types: rejects type assertion incorrectly #8561

adonovan opened this issue Aug 20, 2014 · 4 comments
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Conversions between interfaces whose concrete types are provably disjoint should be an
error.

http://play.golang.org/p/v8hmUJ909X

gc performs a dynamic check; go/types rejects this program with this error:
a.go:9:6: i (variable of type interface{f(int)}) cannot have dynamic type
interface{f(string)} (wrong type for method f)

The spec doesn't say what should happen.  I think this should be a required error,
otherwise it makes "duck typing" very fragile, because adding a parameter to
one interface doesn't and recompiling doesn't detect that the other interface should
have been modified too.
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Comment 1:

Sorry, that was reported in haste.   To clarify:
- this is about type assertions to interface types, not conversions.
- the spec doesn't mention the possibility of a static error, and does talk about
dynamic types,
   so gc is consistent with the spec and go/types is not.  Reassigning to gri.
- we probably couldn't change this even if we want to due to the Go 1.1 compatibility
guarantee (and I do want to, because the current behaviour is harmful since it creates
latent dynamic errors when changing one interface but not another.)
- s/interface doesn't/interface/

Owner changed to @griesemer.

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rsc commented Aug 25, 2014

Comment 2:

Status changed to Accepted.

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Comment 3:

Labels changed: added release-go1.4, repo-tools.

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Comment 4:

This issue was closed by revision golang/tools@289e96c.

Status changed to Fixed.

@rsc rsc added this to the Go1.4 milestone Apr 14, 2015
@rsc rsc removed the release-go1.4 label Apr 14, 2015
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