Merge pull request #697 from prometheus/beorn7/doc

Improve doc comment for NewGaugeFunc
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@ -273,9 +273,12 @@ type GaugeFunc interface {
// NewGaugeFunc creates a new GaugeFunc based on the provided GaugeOpts. The
// value reported is determined by calling the given function from within the
// Write method. Take into account that metric collection may happen
// concurrently. If that results in concurrent calls to Write, like in the case
// where a GaugeFunc is directly registered with Prometheus, the provided
// function must be concurrency-safe.
// concurrently. Therefore, it must be safe to call the provided function
// concurrently.
//
// NewGaugeFunc is a good way to create an “info” style metric with a constant
// value of 1. Example:
// https://github.com/prometheus/common/blob/8558a5b7db3c84fa38b4766966059a7bd5bfa2ee/version/info.go#L36-L56
func NewGaugeFunc(opts GaugeOpts, function func() float64) GaugeFunc {
return newValueFunc(NewDesc(
BuildFQName(opts.Namespace, opts.Subsystem, opts.Name),