[readme.md] so, what exactly is `go/loader`?

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[readme.md] so, what exactly is `go/loader`?

Closed this issue 7 years ago · 3 comments

In the repo readme:

This package relies on go/types for the heavy lifting: name resolution, constant folding and type inference. It also uses go/loader to resolve the packages specified by import paths.

I'd be curious to use the latter in other code, but I don't find any actual go/loader imports in your .go sources here and no mention of loader at https://golang.org/pkg/go/ either --- what is it?

Answer 1 · 2017-04-04T11:34:52.000Z

Ah OK, found at https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/go/loader

Answer 2 · 2017-04-05T01:45:23.000Z

It might be more clear to refer to it as x/tools/go/loader, or by its full import path.

Answer 3 · 2017-04-05T09:19:03.000Z

I'll just clean that up - nowadays, the use of go/types and x/tools/go/loader is common and doesn't need to be in the README.

Also, re-reading that bit made me realise how I introduced #34 :)