advanced.md

Advanced

• Effective Go (I think this is overkill for students)
  • I reviewed this.
• https://golang.org/ref/spec (spec of the implementation)
  • I reviewed this.
• https://golang.org/pkg/ (list of all packages)
  • I already reviewed and pulled out the interesting ones.
• https://golang.org/doc/faq
  • A bunch of trivia questions uninteresting to students I think.
  • I reviewed this.

Reviewed

• context (https://blog.golang.org/context)
  • Not super interesting. Just used by requests to signal: "hey, cancel this request." As in, let's say you make a DB call, and hand it to a SQL driver. But then that takes too long. In the meantime, you don't need the answer anymore. So you can cancel the request by closing a channel.

Reflect

• I reviewed this. Not hyperinteresting.
• Kinda interesting how reflect relates to interface. To get a reflect.Value you call reflect.ValueOf on an interface{}.
• If the interface{} stores a non-ptr value, you can't mutate it using reflection, because the interface holds a copy of that value.

Assorted Advanced Packages (unreviewed)

unsafe atomic

Also: go test.