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0 pointsyencabulator3y ago0 comments

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    var bestShape atomic.Value
    bestShape.Store((*Circle)(nil))

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Which will store it as a *Circle, and only allow more *Circles, not Shapes. That part of GP’s claim is correct.

It just had nothing to do with atomicity; it means something specific, not just “I like the failure mode.”

That's pretty easy to workaround:

    type shapeContainer struct { Shape }

The usual way to use atomic.Value is by writing strongly-typed wrappers anyway, so that doesn't affect your codebase beyond about 3 lines.

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