Even though you can get at the values by iterating, I can't seem to do so
with a direct reference to the NaN key:
https://play.golang.org/p/69m-LK7obHA

On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 4:18 PM Burak Serdar <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 4:59 PM Dan Kortschak
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > They are not inaccessible, they are just inaccessible via reflect (at
> > the moment).
> >
> > https://play.golang.org/p/_EnLPRvrHAz
> >
> > fmt uses reflect to get the keys and values. With the addition of a map
> > iterator type in reflect (https://tip.golang.org/pkg/reflect/#MapIter),
> > the behaviour you see now will change.
>
> Thanks, that makes sense.
>
>
> >
> > On Sun, 2018-10-21 at 16:33 -0600, Burak Serdar wrote:
> > > Someone asked a question a few days ago related to this, and it's
> > > been
> > > bugging me since then.
> > >
> > > Is this an undefined behavior according to the spec?
> > >
> > > https://play.golang.org/p/RqgD492EZ9U
> > >
> > > The code results in a map with two NaN keys, both of which have nil
> > > values. I think having two NaN keys is reasonable, but I would expect
> > > them to be non-nil when iterated,
> > >
> > > Since they are inaccessible, would those map values be garbage
> > > collected? Or is there a hidden pointer somewhere in there where no
> > > one can reach?
> > >
>
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