Follow pointers and find the value

[tylerwince]

Suggestion from SonOfMotherDuck on reddit

[andradei]

Is this where importing or forking go-spew as a dependency would be relevant?

[tylerwince]

I am not sure we need to that -- I think they serve different purposes. My thought initially was just to do something like this:

func getExpValue(exp interface{}) {
    if reflect.ValueOf(exp).Kind() == reflect.Ptr {
        return *exp
    }
    return exp
}

[AlekSi]

That will not work for double pointers. Then you will make that function recursive, and it will not handle cycles. Then you reimplement a large part of go-spew. :)