Proposal: Relaxed rules for (pointer to) struct conversions

[Robert Griesemer]

I have submitted a concrete proposal describing in detail the language and implementation changes needed to permit conversions between structs that are identical but for field tags.

The proposal issue is

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16085

(the issue text is a close copy of the initial design doc)

The actual proposal design doc is

https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/16085-conversions-ignore-tags.md

Per the proposal process (https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/README.md) please comment on the issue. Thanks.

- gri

PS: I volunteered to investigate, write up, and shepherd along the proposal as a result of the discussion in https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6858 . For the original discussion and suggestion see the issue.