blog: update one example in "Laws of Reflection"
A recent change to fmt that has it print reflect.Values nicer
invalidates the pedagogical value of one example. Tweak the
example.
Change-Id: I9ca7f81957832b26c47270d8967b7aeef801b1a8
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/39530
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
diff --git a/content/laws-of-reflection.article b/content/laws-of-reflection.article
index a95ac0e..fc704f2 100644
--- a/content/laws-of-reflection.article
+++ b/content/laws-of-reflection.article
@@ -122,12 +122,15 @@
The `reflect.ValueOf` function, of course, recovers the value (from here on we'll elide the boilerplate and focus just on the executable code):
var x float64 = 3.4
- fmt.Println("value:", reflect.ValueOf(x))
+ fmt.Println("value:", reflect.ValueOf(x).String())
prints
value: <float64 Value>
+(We call the `String` method explicitly because by default the `fmt` package digs into a `reflect.Value` to show the concrete value inside.
+The `String` method does not.)
+
Both `reflect.Type` and `reflect.Value` have lots of methods to let us examine and manipulate them. One important example is that `Value` has a `Type` method that returns the `Type` of a `reflect.Value`. Another is that both `Type` and `Value` have a `Kind` method that returns a constant indicating what sort of item is stored: `Uint`, `Float64`, `Slice`, and so on. Also methods on `Value` with names like `Int` and `Float` let us grab values (as `int64` and `float64`) stored inside:
var x float64 = 3.4
