diff --git a/doc/go_spec.html b/doc/go_spec.html index ed740187b9..8a11e49f9d 100644 --- a/doc/go_spec.html +++ b/doc/go_spec.html @@ -151,12 +151,13 @@ Comments do not nest.
Tokens form the vocabulary of the Go language. -There are four classes: identifiers, keywords, operators -and delimiters, and literals. White space, formed from +There are four classes: identifiers, keywords, operators +and delimiters, and literals. White space, formed from spaces (U+0020), horizontal tabs (U+0009), carriage returns (U+000D), and newlines (U+000A), is ignored except as it separates tokens -that would otherwise combine into a single token. +that would otherwise combine into a single token. Also, a newline +may trigger the insertion of a semicolon. While breaking the input into tokens, the next token is the longest sequence of characters that form a valid token.