go/types/objectpath: a stable naming scheme for types.Object

Type-checker objects are canonical, so they are usually identified by
their address in memory (a pointer), but a pointer has meaning only
within one address space. By contrast, objectpath names allow the
identity of a logical object to be sent from one program to another,
establishing a correspondence between types.Object variables that are
distinct but logically equivalent.

This package was developed for Google's internal fork of guru.
It is needed for lemma support in the analysis API; see
docs.google.com/document/d/1-azPLXaLgTCKeKDNg0HVMq2ovMlD-e7n1ZHzZVzOlJk

Change-Id: I9899ce14d57909858a68f84e90d58a039f2bb7a0
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/135675
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
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README.md

Go Tools

This subrepository holds the source for various packages and tools that support the Go programming language.

Some of the tools, godoc and vet for example, are included in binary Go distributions.

Others, including the Go guru and the test coverage tool, can be fetched with go get.

Packages include a type-checker for Go and an implementation of the Static Single Assignment form (SSA) representation for Go programs.

Download/Install

The easiest way to install is to run go get -u golang.org/x/tools/.... You can also manually git clone the repository to $GOPATH/src/golang.org/x/tools.

Report Issues / Send Patches

This repository uses Gerrit for code changes. To learn how to submit changes to this repository, see https://golang.org/doc/contribute.html.

The main issue tracker for the tools repository is located at https://github.com/golang/go/issues. Prefix your issue with “x/tools/(your subdir):” in the subject line, so it is easy to find.