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authorRuss Cox <rsc@golang.org>2014-10-06 15:48:17 -0400
committerRuss Cox <rsc@golang.org>2014-10-06 15:48:17 -0400
commit108521744f8607c55dff4fca73342d8e72219641 (patch)
tree067dc8608de6e09f2a6c4478f6b46a8925b3f311 /src/encoding
parent1bd70feb2f014c81db749dde3fb66b40938aae19 (diff)
downloadgo-108521744f8607c55dff4fca73342d8e72219641.tar.gz
encoding/json: document that embedded interfaces look like non-embedded ones
Fixes issue 8386. LGTM=r R=golang-codereviews, r CC=golang-codereviews, iant https://codereview.appspot.com/149570043
Diffstat (limited to 'src/encoding')
-rw-r--r--src/encoding/json/encode.go2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/encoding/json/encode.go b/src/encoding/json/encode.go
index b63538c92..9b7b9d5fd 100644
--- a/src/encoding/json/encode.go
+++ b/src/encoding/json/encode.go
@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ import (
// as described in the next paragraph.
// An anonymous struct field with a name given in its JSON tag is treated as
// having that name, rather than being anonymous.
+// An anonymous struct field of interface type is treated the same as having
+// that type as its name, rather than being anonymous.
//
// The Go visibility rules for struct fields are amended for JSON when
// deciding which field to marshal or unmarshal. If there are