dev.go2go: generic embedded field names are not found in composite literals

[griesemer]

Example:

package main

type E[T any] struct {
	A T
}

type T struct {
	E[int]
}

func main() {
	_ = T{E[int]{A: 1}}
	//_ = T{E: E[int]{A: 1}} // <<< this should work

	// manually it does work:
	var x T
	x.E = E[int]{A: 1}
}

We get an error:

./prog.go2:13: unknown field 'E' in struct literal of type T

yet when a T is set up manually, the E field is recognized.

[griesemer]

cc: @findleyr

[griesemer]

It appears this error message is coming from the compiler, not the type checker (both types2 and go/types can typecheck this code w/o problems). That is, the bug is probably in go/go2go in the dev.go2go branch. Unlikely that we're going to spend time to fix this in the prototype since we're now working on a real implementation (which will eventually appear in the playground).

[griesemer]

Leaving for @ianlancetaylor to decide.

[ianlancetaylor]

I agree that _ = T{E: E[int]{A: 1}} should work.

The go2go translation tool has many bugs with embedded fields.

[griesemer]

This appears to be working fine in Go 1.18 (playground). Closing.