go - How to access unexported struct fields

Question

Is there a way to use reflect to access unexported fields in Go 1.8? This no longer seems to work: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17982725/555493

Note that reflect.DeepEqual works just fine (that is, it can access unexported fields) but I can't make heads or tails of that function. Here's a go playarea that shows it in action: https://play.golang.org/p/vyEvay6eVG. The src code is below

import (
"fmt"
"reflect"
)

type Foo struct {
  private string
}

func main() {
    x := Foo{"hello"}
    y := Foo{"goodbye"}
    z := Foo{"hello"}

    fmt.Println(reflect.DeepEqual(x,y)) //false
    fmt.Println(reflect.DeepEqual(x,z)) //true
}

Answer 1

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