strings.go is legal code:
-11 s := "hello"
-12 if s[1] != 'e' { os.Exit(1) }
-13 s = "good bye"
-14 var p *string = &s
-15 *p = "ciao"
+10 s := "hello"
+11 if s[1] != 'e' { os.Exit(1) }
+12 s = "good bye"
+13 var p *string = &s
+14 *p = "ciao"
However the following statements are illegal because they would modify diff --git a/doc/go_tutorial.txt b/doc/go_tutorial.txt index 5eea3c980bb..2b2a0cda1e6 100644 --- a/doc/go_tutorial.txt +++ b/doc/go_tutorial.txt @@ -6,10 +6,13 @@ This document is a tutorial introduction to the basics of the Go programming language, intended for programmers familiar with C or C++. It is not a comprehensive guide to the language; at the moment the document closest to that is the language specification. -After you've read this tutorial, you might want to look at +After you've read this tutorial, you should look at Effective Go, -which digs deeper into how the language is used. -Also, slides from a 3-day course about Go are available: +which digs deeper into how the language is used and +talks about the style and idioms of programming in Go. +Also, slides from a 3-day course about Go are available. +Although they're badly out of date, they provide some +background and a lot of examples: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3.