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
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/92155
Run-TryBot: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
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>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
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>
Fixes#23443.
Change-Id: If60c39b582ee5308e9fa902f93c1b6ae7890346c
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/87975
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Every few months we get a new error report claiming that there
is a typo in the spec related to this specific example. Clearly,
the fact that two types with the same identifier are identical
seems exceedingly obvious to readers; thus the example seems not
worth the trouble. Removing it.
For #9226.
For #22202.
For #22495.
For #23096.
For #23409.
There may be more.
Change-Id: I003ba79dc460ffb028a4ecb5f29efd60f2551912
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/87417
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>
Type values being comparable implies that Type is a valid map key type.
As previously written, they sound unrelated.
Change-Id: I8e2235275d62898bfb47de850e8257b51ab5cbd6
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/87021
Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Don't suggest that it's always necessary to disable optimizations.
(The text can be misread that way, even if it's not what was meant.)
Change-Id: I9a2dff6a75ce4a3f9210cdf4f5bad6aaaeae9b29
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/87018
Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
We were not being consistent.
Standardize on toolchain.
Change-Id: Id0e756b5214ce4a1341f733634ed95263f03a61c
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/87017
Run-TryBot: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
