Bring it up to date with recent terminology, mention new approaches
such as in Rust, and link to the new blog post.
Change-Id: I1d0b121e6f8347c3cf2c8ca0d8adc8285ce59ef1
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/124475
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Since Go1.10, go test runs vet on the tests before executing them.
Moreover, the vet tool typechecks the package under analysis with
go/types before running. In Go1.10, a typechecking failure just caused
a warning to be printed. In Go1.11, a typechecking failure will cause
vet to exit with a fatal error (see Issue #21287).
This means that starting with Go1.11, tests that don't typecheck will
fail immediately. This would not normally be an issue, since a test
that doesn't typecheck shouldn't even compile, and it should already
be broken.
Unfortunately, there's a bug in gc that makes it accept programs with
unused variables inside a closure (Issue #3059). This means that a
test with an unused variable inside a closure, that compiled and
passed in Go1.10, will fail in the typechecking step of vet starting
with Go1.11.
Explain this in the 1.11 release notes.
Fixes#26109
Change-Id: I970c1033ab6bc985d8c64bd24f56e854af155f96
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/121455
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
This is close to a complete rewrite, as the content was pretty old.
The CL includes links to the Wiki for information about companies
using Go, a new section about IDEs and editors¹, and a restatement
of the foreign function interface story. It also modernizes and
expands a little on the use of Go inside Google.
¹ Ed is the standard editor.
Change-Id: I5e54aafa53d00d86297b2691960a376b40f6225b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/123922
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Significant surgery done to the Versioning section, bringing it closer to
modern thinking.
Also add a question about constants.
Update #26107.
Change-Id: Icf70b7228503c6baaeab0b95ee3e6bee921575aa
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/123918
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Changes are mostly about making more about now than about the past,
changing some verb tenses, and mentioning gollvm (which should
be pronounced "gollum" if you ask me).
Update #26107
Change-Id: I6c14f42b9fc2684259d4ba8bc149d7ec9bb83d15
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/123917
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
The old text was written when it was only 1 by default, which
changed a long time ago.
Also add a note that GOMAXPROCS does not limit the total
number of threads.
Change-Id: I104ccd7266d11335320a4d7f5671fb09ed641f88
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/123916
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Many parts of the FAQ are dusty and need cleaning up.
This is the first of a series of changes to bring it up to date.
Since it was first written at the time of release, some of the
ideas and background have changed, and some historical
remarks are largely irrelevant now.
Update #26107.
Change-Id: I1f36df7d8ecc8a1a033d5ac4fa1edeece25ed6b4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/123496
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Change "have to" to "need to" for clarity and to avoid a
peculiar English idiom.
Change-Id: Iec2b1f841d0353dd7925f8f934fe82d4ed059d7d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/123495
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Also, remove some test code that was trying to work on XP and fix up
some comments referencing XP.
Fixes#26191
Updates #23380
Change-Id: I0b7319fe1954afddb22d396e5ec91d8c960268d8
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/123415
Run-TryBot: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
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Reviewed-by: Alex Brainman <alex.brainman@gmail.com>
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It will not be present in go1.11beta1 but will be present
in subsequent releases.
Change-Id: I298fb682945345bb4a34ec83802fd644f75bdd98
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/120756
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
This change fixes a typo in doc/contribute.html (afects -> affects)
and rewords a few slightly akward sentences.
Change-Id: I6bfbacba0de29464fce134b0fdaf3898a97b8d57
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/120105
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
It's more common to specify GOOS/GOARCH values in that order,
rather than the inverse. Fix the order.
Updates #18892.
Change-Id: I8551508599e019f6617dc007397b562c9926418d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/120057
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
The git clone url should be a Gerrit host and not Github, otherwise the
codereview command will fail.
git-codereview: failed to load Gerrit origin: git origin must be a Gerrit host, not GitHub: https://github.com/golang/go
Change-Id: I62f62c86ee6dce0720a844fc56340135dfae8405
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/117178
Reviewed-by: Daniel Martí <mvdan@mvdan.cc>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
The name was "Mac OS X" during versions 10.0 to 10.7.
It was renamed to "OS X" starting from 10.8 until 10.11.
The current name is "macOS" starting with 10.12. [1]
Previous changes (e.g., CL 47252) updated "Mac OS X" to macOS
in some places, but not everywhere. This CL updates remaining
instances for consistency.
Only the pages that display current information were updated;
historical pages such as release notes for older Go releases,
past articles, blog posts, etc., were left in original form.
Rename the "#osx" anchor to "#macos" on /doc/install page,
along with the single reference to it on the same page.
Add an empty div with id="osx" to not break old links.
Update minimum macOS version from 10.8 to 10.10 per #23122.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/macOS#History
Updates #23122.
Change-Id: I69fe4b85e83265b9d99f447e3cc5230dde094869
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/119855
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
In an effort to help others avoid the issues I've hit due to lack of
symlink support under GOPATH, I've added a note of warning to the
Workspaces section.
I have not changed the contents of go help gopath, because on reflection
it seems this change alone may be sufficient.
Fixes#21320
Change-Id: Ib8969bf12cecad878e89ff66b5864bbf3caaf219
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/61930
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
After CL 113016 the "a" article is no longer necessary.
Change-Id: I5a80a210bd2b9eedd73d5f9f3f338d7f22c29ea6
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/113355
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Mostly just formatting and minor cleanup:
- regularize HTML (add </p> etc.)
- remove all errors caught by tidy
- start all sentences on new line for easy editing
Some wording changes, but there will be more to come.
It seemed there were already enough edits to send it out.
Update #24487
Change-Id: I613ce206b1e8e3e522ecb0bbcd2acb11c4ff5bae
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/113015
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
The phrase "couple X" is considered colloquial, so make that "a couple of X".
Also move the start of a sentence to a new line in a couple of places
for easier editing, in one place thereby removing two spaces after a period.
Change-Id: If5ef05eb496afc235f8f0134c4e7346375a65181
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/112176
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
The videos on the front page are always the same width, regardless of
the viewport width. These changes let the video fill the space given
to its container regardless of layout. It uses the standard hack for
making iframes responsive, but the videos are loaded at random and do
not have uniform aspect ratios so that information is injected into the
DOM using custom properties. If these are not supported, it falls back
to the same layout present before this change.
Note: this change also requires CL 108678 to complete the fix,
though either CL without the other is harmless.
Updates #24997.
Change-Id: I2f93dc21ffe01d99ce0e175e9dd0e3d486fddc9f
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/108677
Run-TryBot: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>
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Reviewed-by: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>
In the binary sizes FAQ, the approximate size of a Go hello world
binary was said to be 1.5MB (it was about 1.6MB on go1.7 on
linux/amd64). Sadly, this is no longer true. A Go1.10 hello world is
2.0MB, and in 1.11 it'll be about 2.5MB.
Just say "a couple megabytes" to stop this dance.
Change-Id: Ib4dc13a47ccd51327c1a9d90d4116f79597513a4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/110069
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
mips64 softfloat support is based on mips implementation and introduces
new enviroment variable GOMIPS64.
GOMIPS64 is a GOARCH=mips64{,le} specific option, for a choice between
hard-float and soft-float. Valid values are 'hardfloat' (default) and
'softfloat'. It is passed to the assembler as
'GOMIPS64_{hardfloat,softfloat}'.
Change-Id: I7f73078627f7cb37c588a38fb5c997fe09c56134
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/108475
Reviewed-by: Cherry Zhang <cherryyz@google.com>
Run-TryBot: Cherry Zhang <cherryyz@google.com>
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The example in the 'A web server' section of the effective Go document
uses Google's image charts API (at chart.apis.google.com).
The service is now deprecated (see developers.google.com/chart/image),
and visiting http://chart.apis.google.com gives a 404. The endpoint is
still active, so the Go code in the example still works, but there's
no point in making the link clickable by the user if the page returns
a 404.
Change the element to `<code>`.
Change-Id: Ie67f4723cfa636e3dc1460507055b6bbb2b0970c
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/109576
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
The existing text makes it seem like there's no way
to use GitHub over HTTPS. There is. Explain that.
Also, the existing text suggests explicit checkout into $GOPATH,
which is not going to work in the new module world.
Drop that alternative.
Also, the existing text uses pushInsteadOf instead of insteadOf,
which would have the effect of being able to push to a private
repo but not clone it in the first place. That seems not helpful,
so suggest insteadOf instead.
Fixes#18927.
Change-Id: Ic358b66f88064b53067d174a2a1591ac8bf96c88
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/107775
Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
The language spec requires the RHS operand of shift expressions to be unsigned integers.
The changes in CL 60230 and the related CL 81277 refer to a variable s of type uint.
The "untyped constant" here refers to 1.0, not s.
Change-Id: Id2b884816af7f79f453afcb8c34ade2d34e18bc2
GitHub-Last-Rev: b26c853cae
GitHub-Pull-Request: golang/go#24989
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/108676
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
The patch rewrites the content of doc.go file. The file describes some
general rules of the mapping between Go assembly syntax and GNU syntax.
And it gives some Go assembly examples and corresponding GNU assembly
examples.
The patch changes the doc.go to use standard doc comment format so that
the link https://golang.org/cmd/internal/obj/arm64/ can display it.
Assembly document framework is mainly contributed by Eric Fang <Eric.Fang@arm.com>
Documentation work is contributed by Eric Fang and Fannie Zhang <Fannie.Zhang@arm.com>
Change-Id: I8b3f6d6c6b91afdc2c44602e8f796beea905085e
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/102055
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
The previous CL, 107197, overclarified the need for short subject
lines. Tweak the wording to be a guideline (keep it short) rather
than a limit (76 characters), which is more the Go way.
Also be strict about avoiding markup language.
Change-Id: I0da1132db8d86052647d96f1caac60289f2209ce
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/107378
Reviewed-by: Mohit Bajoria <mohitbajo36@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
As suggested by Ian on the issue, just use past releases to avoid any
confusion regarding current and future releases.
Fixes#23891
Change-Id: Ie513cd3e15aa04822898be57f71976e6fe6bd816
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/107078
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>
Fixes#24852
Change-Id: I71d0d7f75108bf4ad606733a45bb71baa66a4e91
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/107197
Reviewed-by: Alberto Donizetti <alb.donizetti@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Giovanni Bajo <rasky@develer.com>
Point out that one can just run the commands now; it's not necessary
to log out first.
Change-Id: I48d0cc0273d97ba54ce59b3a3bbcae0b5af9aaef
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/106195
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
If one is somewhat new to the command line or shell, it might be
surprising that changes applied to a file like $HOME/.profile will
seemingly not take effect, even if new shells are started.
Add a note about how shells usually only load these when the user logs
into a machine, to minimize the amount of people stuck and confused by
this.
Fixes#24756.
Change-Id: Ic68d8c97933f3f080b151a107633ecad76a163a4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/105557
Reviewed-by: Agniva De Sarker <agniva.quicksilver@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bryan C. Mills <bcmills@google.com>
I've reorganized the guide and rewritten large sections.
The structure is now more clear and logical, and can
be understood and navigated using the summary displayed at
the top of the page (before, the summary was confusing because
the guide contained H1s that were being ignored by the summary).
Both the initial onboarding process and the Gerrit
change submission process have been reworked to
include a concise checklist of steps that can be
read and understood in a few seconds, for people
that don't want or need to bother with details.
More in-depth descriptions have been moved into
separate sections, one per each checklist step.
This is by far the biggest improvement, as the previous
approach of having to read several pages just to understand
the requires steps was very scaring for beginners, in
addition of being harder to navigate.
GitHub pull requests have been integrated as a different
way to submit a change, suggested for first time contributors.
The review process has been described in more details,
documenting the workflow and the used conventions.
Most miscellanea have been moved into an "advanced
topics" chapter.
Paragraphs describing how to use git have been removed
to simplify reading. This guide should focus on Go contribution,
and not help users getting familiar with git, for which many
guides are available.
Change-Id: I6f4b76583c9878b230ba1d0225745a1708fad2e8
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/93495
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
This reverts commit 4b06d9d727.
Reason for revert: It's a reference to a legendary article
from the Journal of Irreproducible Results.
Updates golang/go#24451
Change-Id: I0288177f4e286bd6ace5774f2e5e0acb02370305
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/101495
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>
There are a few places where the integer value is used.
Use the equivalent constants to aid with readability.
Change-Id: I023b1dbe605340544c056d0e0d9d6d5a7d7d0edc
GitHub-Last-Rev: c1c90bcd25
GitHub-Pull-Request: golang/go#24123
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/96984
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>
The fourth example for map indexing states you have a map of type [K]V
and attempts to read in a variable of type T. Further, the example
is meant to showcase the boolean return variable saying whether the
map contained a key, but overrides to type T. This will not compile.
Changed last updated date to February 18
Fixes: #23895
Change-Id: I63c52adbcd989afd4855e329e6c727f4c01f7881
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/94906
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
This moves the paragraph mentioning the use of _ higher up
to emphasize the warning and thereby reducing chances of getting
stuck.
Fixes#22617
Change-Id: I64352a3e966a22d86fc9d381332bade49d74714a
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/87375
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
The new break and continue actions do not work in html/template, and
fixing them requires thinking about security issues that seem too
tricky at this stage of the release. We will try again for 1.11.
Original CL description:
text/template: add break, continue actions in ranges
Adds the two range control actions "break" and "continue". They act the
same as the Go keywords break and continue, but are simplified in that
only the innermost range statement can be broken out of or continued.
Fixes#20531
Updates #20531
Updates #23683
Change-Id: Ia7fd3c409163e3bcb5dc42947ae90b15bdf89853
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The speed of feature development for these products outpaces the
standard Go 6-month release cycle tied to this page. The cost of
maintaining this list is becoming a burden as we make every
attempt at being impartial. As of this writing, we believe feature
lists belong on the pages of the editors/IDEs themselves.
Change-Id: Ie2dfe0e0d47d203c913373e58cbb65cb0fb14d0c
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/91976
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
The EBNF production
Function = Signature FunctionBody .
was used in FunctionDecl, MethodDecl, and FunctionLit, but only
for the latter it shortened the syntax slightly.
This change "inlines" Function which simplifies FunctionDecl and
MethodDecl and gets rid of the Function production.
This has no impact on the specified language. Also, the Function
production is never referred to by the prose, so it's safe to
remove it from the spec.
Finally, neither go/ast nor go/parser have a representation of
this production via a corresponding node or parse function, so
no possibly valuable documentation is lost, either.
Change-Id: Ia2875d31c6ec2d2079081ef481e50bad4f43c694
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/91515
Reviewed-by: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Previously we allowed drivers to modify the row buffer used to scan
values when closing Rows. This is no longer acceptable and can lead
to data races.
Fixes#23519
Change-Id: I91820a6266ffe52f95f40bb47307d375727715af
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/89936
Run-TryBot: Daniel Theophanes <kardianos@gmail.com>
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Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
When we introduced the notion of alias type declarations, we renamed
"named type" to "defined type" to avoid confusion with types denoted
by aliases and thus are also types with names, or "named types".
Some of the old uses of "named types" remained; this change removes
them.
Now the spec consistently uses the terms:
- "defined type" for a type declared via a type definition
- "type name" for any name denoting an (alias or defined) type
- "alias" for a type name declared in an alias declaration
New prose is encouraged to avoid the term "named type" to counter-
act further confusion.
Fixes#23474.
Change-Id: I5fb59f1208baf958da79cf51ed3eb1411cd18e03
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/89115
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Except for removing the DRAFT marker, I think these are now ready to go.
Change-Id: I20604f5b135616189a24990db463c7bb5e7d48f1
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/88975
Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
