This has always been true, but we lost it from the spec
somewhere along the way, probably when we disallowed
the general 'pointer to anything sliceable' slice case.
R=gri
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5437121
The special case in the spec is that you can take the
address of a composite literal using the & operator.
A composite literal is not, however, generally addressable,
and the slice operator requires an addressable argument,
so [3]int{1,2,3}[:] is invalid. This tutorial code and one bug
report are the only places in the tree where it appears.
R=r, gri
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5437120
To structure larger sections of comments in html output headings
are detected in comments and formated as h3 in the generated html.
A simple heuristic is used to detect headings in comments:
A heading is a non-blank, non-indented line preceded by a blank
line. It is followed by a blank and a non-blank, non-indented line.
A heading must start with an uppercase letter and end with a letter,
digit or a colon. A heading may not contain punctuation characters.
R=jan.mercl, gri, adg, rsc, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5437056
The Set type is gone. Instead, templates are automatically associated by
being parsed together; nested definitions implicitly create associations.
Only associated templates can invoke one another.
This approach dramatically reduces the breadth of the construction API.
For now, html/template is deleted from src/pkg/Makefile, so this can
be checked in. Nothing in the tree depends on it. It will be updated next.
R=dsymonds, adg, rsc, r, gri, mikesamuel, nigeltao
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5415060
The allowed conversions before and after are:
type Tstring string
type Tbyte []byte
type Trune []rune
string <-> string // ok
string <-> []byte // ok
string <-> []rune // ok
string <-> Tstring // ok
string <-> Tbyte // was illegal, now ok
string <-> Trune // was illegal, now ok
Tstring <-> string // ok
Tstring <-> []byte // ok
Tstring <-> []rune // ok
Tstring <-> Tstring // ok
Tstring <-> Tbyte // was illegal, now ok
Tstring <-> Trune // was illegal, now ok
Update spec, compiler, tests. Use in a few packages.
We agreed on this a few months ago but never implemented it.
Fixes#1707.
R=golang-dev, gri, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5421057
An experiment: allow structs to be copied even if they
contain unexported fields. This gives packages the
ability to return opaque values in their APIs, like reflect
does for reflect.Value but without the kludgy hacks reflect
resorts to.
In general, we trust programmers not to do silly things
like *x = *y on a package's struct pointers, just as we trust
programmers not to do unicode.Letter = unicode.Digit,
but packages that want a harder guarantee can introduce
an extra level of indirection, like in the changes to os.File
in this CL or by using an interface type.
All in one CL so that it can be rolled back more easily if
we decide this is a bad idea.
Originally discussed in March 2011.
https://groups.google.com/group/golang-dev/t/3f5d30938c7c45ef
R=golang-dev, adg, dvyukov, r, bradfitz, jan.mercl, gri
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5372095
- syscall (not os) now defines the Errno type.
- the low-level assembly functions Syscall, Syscall6, and so on
return Errno, not uintptr
- syscall wrappers all return error, not uintptr.
R=golang-dev, mikioh.mikioh, r, alex.brainman
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5372080
This contains the files that required handiwork, mostly
Makefiles with updated TARGs, plus the two packages
with modified package names.
html/template/doc.go needs a separate edit pass.
test/fixedbugs/bug358.go is not legal go so gofix fails on it.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5340050
This is true of the existing implementations, and I think
it is an important property to guarantee.
R=golang-dev, r, borman, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5321058
1. Generate TOC for package pages using template,
instead of using JavaScript magic. This makes the
pages generated by godoc -html easier to export
to other systems.
2. Make TOC one column. It's hard to do two columns
portably without invoking JavaScript.
3. Since the TOC is only one column, show full type
signatures for functions and methods. Many times
that's all you need to see anyway.
4. Name the section after the TOC "Overview".
Naming it something is important, to set it off
from the TOC and so that there's a quick link to
it in the TOC.
For now, some illustrative examples:
http://swtch.com:6060/pkg/io/http://swtch.com:6060/pkg/strings/http://swtch.com:6060/pkg/tabwriter/http://swtch.com:6060/pkg/unicode/Fixes#1982.
R=gri, bradfitz, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5303044
This CL introduces the go.Example type and go.Examples functions that
are used to represent and extract code samples from Go source.
They should be of the form:
// Output of this function.
func ExampleFoo() {
fmt.Println("Output of this function.")
}
It also modifies godoc to read example code from _test.go files,
and include them in the HTML output with JavaScript-driven toggles.
It also implements testing of example functions with gotest.
The stdout/stderr is compared against the output comment on the
function.
This CL includes examples for the sort.Ints function and the
sort.SortInts type. After patching this CL in and re-building go/doc
and godoc, try
godoc -http=localhost:6060
and visit http://localhost:6060/pkg/sort/
R=gri, r, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5137041
Fix for new regexp library ($ isn't end of line any more).
Don't assume . is in PATH.
R=golang-dev, dsymonds
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5175052
Also update the big example to the new template system.
There are a number of other examples that should be
extracted; this CL serves as an introduction to the
approach.
R=golang-dev, adg
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4923043
It's already in old/template; make that build.
Update a couple of references to point to the old template.
They can be updated later.
Update goplay to use exp/template.
R=golang-dev, dsymonds
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4902046
Expand the conversations about pointers, memory, and
garbage collection.
Describe the lack of co/contravariant typing.
Fixes#1929.
Fixes#1930.
R=dsymonds, r, mirtchovski, edsrzf, hanwen, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4852041
No longer do we generate HTML from it; instead the input
file is already in HTML but has template invocations to
extract programs from other files.
Delete htmlgen, which is no longer needed.
Add tmpltohtml, which runs the templating code.
R=golang-dev, dsymonds, adg
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4699041
This allows us to drop some crufty scripting and provides a firmer
footing for building better tools for preparing documents with source
code inside.
Also eliminate line numbers from the examples and text.
R=golang-dev, adg
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4650069
No difference in content or appearance.
Forgot to do this when I updated this file a few days ago.
R=golang-dev, dsymonds
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4626056
This is not a language change.
Added paragraphs specifying which conversions
yield results that are constants.
R=r, rsc, iant, ken
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4515176
This is (indirectly) a language change. Per e-mail discussion
on golang-dev.
Fixes#1943.
R=rsc, iant, r, ken
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4581058
- Added some additional examples.
- 6g appears to implement this semantics already.
Fixes#658.
R=rsc, r, iant, ken
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4538119
Note: This is not a spec change.
The spec was not clear on the result type of
constant shift expressions. Made it more
explicit and added additional examples.
Also: Remove paragraph on send expressions (they
are statements, now).
Fixes#1708.
R=rsc, r, iant, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4517074
This CL:
-- removes Response.RequestMethod string
-- adds Response.Request *Request
-- removes the finalURL result parameter from client.Get()
-- adds a gofix rule for callers of http.Get which assign
the final url to the blank identifier; warning otherwise
Caller who did:
res, finalURL, err := http.Get(...)
now need to do:
res, err := http.Get(...)
if err != nil {
...
}
finalURL := res.Request.URL.String()
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4535056
This CL proposes some subtle language changes
in an attempt to clarify the semantics of range
clauses and simplify uses of maps.
- nil maps behave like empty maps; but attempting
to set a value in a nil map causes a run-time panic
- nil channels are never ready for communication;
sending or reading from a nil channel blocks forever
- if there is only one index iteration variable in a
range clause and len(range expression) would be a constant,
the range expression is not evaluated.
(was discrepancy with len/cap before)
- the notion of what is a constant expression len(x)
for (pointer to) arrays x has been generalized and
simplified (can still be syntactically decided)
(before: more restrictive syntactic rule that was not
consistently implemented)
Fixes#1713.
R=r, rsc, iant, ken2, r2, bradfitz, rog
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4444050
Fixes a JS crash which prevented the automatically generated
table of contents to not appear.
R=adg, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4460041
No language change.
- added a few examples with parentheses
- added a corresponding sentence to assignments
(this explicitly permits: (_) = 0, currently allowed by 6g,
gofmt, but marked as an error by gccgo).
R=rsc, r, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4446071
The CL introduces inconsistencies with respect to
the use of parentheses/grouping of receive operations.
««« original CL description
spec: narrow syntax for expression and select statements
This is not a language change, it simply expresses the
accepted cases explicitly in the respective productions.
R=rsc, r, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4428057
»»»
R=golang-dev, rsc1
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4444080
This is not a language change, it simply expresses the
accepted cases explicitly in the respective productions.
R=rsc, r, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4428057
Fixes#1742.
I hope.
Also this picks up an update to go_tutorial.html that should already have happened.
R=brainman, rsc, peterGo
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4452050
Uses placeholder attribute instead of changing the value of search
field on browsers that support it. On other browsers, the fake
placeholder text is restored when the empty box loses focus.
R=golang-dev, gri
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4441041
Computer people have an agglutinating streak that I like to resist.
As a time of execution: run time.
As an adjective: run-time.
As a noun: run-time support/code/library.
Signed,
Mr. Pedant.
R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4252048
In line with other functions such as Fprintf, put the
thing to be written first.
Apologies for the breakages this is sure to cause.
R=rsc, gri, adg, eds, r2, aam
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4169042
- added an example to Type declarations section clarifying the
situation brought up with issue 1324
- slightly re-ordered paragraphs in Types section
- added separate heading for method set section and refer to it
from elsewhere in the spec
- no language changes
R=rsc, r, iant, ken2, r2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4145043
A couple of post-closure function definitions were introduced too early, making the resulting
code fail compilation.
Also, the TitleValidator regexp was missing.
R=adg
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4105054
Removed most of the detailed examples about handing panics
from the go spec since it's now covered by Effective Go.
R=r, rsc, iant, ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4128058
This change makes it legal to pass a struct value as receiver
outside the package declaring the struct even if the respective
struct type has non-exported fields.
This is a backwards-compatible language change motivated by the
fact that it is already possible to circumvent the assignment
restriction when calling methods through interfaces (see issue
1402).
R=r, rsc, iant, ken2
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/3926044
Prior to this CL, there were two requirements about the
package name main.
1. The package that sits at the root of the import graph
(the one where program execution begins)
must be named main.
2. No other package in the program can be named main.
This CL only removes requirement #2, which can be done
without changing any other Go documentation.
The new wording and formatting is such that removing
requirement #1 can be done by deleting a single line,
but making that change is explicitly outside the scope
of this CL, because it would require changes to other
documentation at the same time.
R=gri, r, gri1
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4126053
This aligns the naming scheme with the testing package and
also lets govet work on more logging calls.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4001048
These are syntactical changes to better reflect the communication
operator's new status in the language.
- sending to a channel is now done via a send statement
- there is no binary communication operation anymore which
leads to a reduction of the number of precedence levels
from 6 to 5 (yeah!)
- small semantic change: since a send operation is not part
of the expression syntax anymore, a <- send operator is
binding weaker than any other operator now
- receiving from a channel is done as before via the unary
receive expression
- communication clauses in select statement now can contain
send statements or receive expressions
R=rsc, r, iant, ken2, gri1
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/3973051
make test.sh runnable as a command.
announce only on 127.0.0.1.
rebuild final-test.bin when final-test.go changes.
R=adg, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4030044
Close of closed channel panics.
Receive from closed channel never panics,
even if done repeatedly.
Fixes#1349.
Fixes#1419.
R=gri, iant, ken2, r, gri1, r2, iant2, rog, albert.strasheim, niemeyer, ejsherry
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/3989042
The default float type is not very useful but for the most basic applications.
For instance, as it is now, using the math package requires conversions for float
variables (the arguments for math functions are usually float64). Typical real
applications tend to specify the floating point precision required.
This proposal removes the predeclared types float and complex. Variable declarations
without type specification but with constant floating point or complex initializer
expressions will assume the type float64 or complex128 respectively.
The predeclared function cmplx is renamed to complex.
R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/3423041
Regular expressions may now be used in conjuction with full text
search. Godoc will show the first 10000 occurences in the source
code and highlight the respective text segments.
- added new flag -testDir to specify a small directory for testing
(fast index creation; default = "")
- use new FormatText function to format text and Go source
code in HTML, supporting multiple kinds of text selections
simulatenously); this replaces the uses of go/printer
Stylers
- for now removed currently unused mechanism for identifier-
specific JS popups (will come back in some form once we
have type or other useful information)
- various typo fixes and minor cleanups throughout
Missing:
- indexing of non-.go files
R=r, r2
CC=golang-dev, rsc
https://golang.org/cl/3699041
The original change 3378041 was submitted in December 2010:
template: change the signature of formatters for future development.
R=adg
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/3862041
The recent linker changes broke NaCl support
a month ago, and there are no known users of it.
The NaCl code can always be recovered from the
repository history.
R=adg, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/3671042
