Commit 892b5074 authored by Rob Pike's avatar Rob Pike

fmt: document that self-recursive data structures can be fatal

Fixes #8241.

LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/144420043
parent 1392276b
......@@ -147,6 +147,10 @@
func (x X) String() string { return Sprintf("<%s>", x) }
convert the value before recurring:
func (x X) String() string { return Sprintf("<%s>", string(x)) }
Infinite recursion can also be triggered by self-referential data
structures, such as a slice that contains itself as an element, if
that type has a String method. Such pathologies are rare, however,
and the package does not protect against them.
Explicit argument indexes:
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