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@@ -15,15 +15,15 @@ contributors:
---
Go was created out of the need to get work done. It's not the latest trend
-in computer science, but it is the newest fastest way to solve real-world
+in programming language theory, but it is a way to solve real-world
problems.
-It has familiar concepts of imperative languages with static typing.
+It draws concepts from imperative languages with static typing.
It's fast to compile and fast to execute, it adds easy-to-understand
-concurrency to leverage today's multi-core CPUs, and has features to
-help with large-scale programming.
+concurrency because multi-core CPUs are now common, and it's used successfully
+in large codebases (~100 million loc at Google, Inc.).
-Go comes with a great standard library and an enthusiastic community.
+Go comes with a good standard library and a sizeable community.
```go
// Single line comment
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ import (
// executable program. Love it or hate it, Go uses brace brackets.
func main() {
// Println outputs a line to stdout.
- // Qualify it with the package name, fmt.
+ // It comes from the package fmt.
fmt.Println("Hello world!")
// Call another function within this package.
@@ -99,12 +99,12 @@ can include line breaks.` // Same string type.
// Arrays have size fixed at compile time.
var a4 [4]int // An array of 4 ints, initialized to all 0.
- a3 := [...]int{3, 1, 5} // An array initialized with a fixed size of three
- // elements, with values 3, 1, and 5.
+ a5 := [...]int{3, 1, 5, 10, 100} // An array initialized with a fixed size of five
+ // elements, with values 3, 1, 5, 10, and 100.
// Slices have dynamic size. Arrays and slices each have advantages
// but use cases for slices are much more common.
- s3 := []int{4, 5, 9} // Compare to a3. No ellipsis here.
+ s3 := []int{4, 5, 9} // Compare to a5. No ellipsis here.
s4 := make([]int, 4) // Allocates slice of 4 ints, initialized to all 0.
var d2 [][]float64 // Declaration only, nothing allocated here.
bs := []byte("a slice") // Type conversion syntax.
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ can include line breaks.` // Same string type.
// Unused variables are an error in Go.
// The underscore lets you "use" a variable but discard its value.
- _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _ = str, s2, g, f, u, pi, n, a3, s4, bs
+ _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _ = str, s2, g, f, u, pi, n, a5, s4, bs
// Usually you use it to ignore one of the return values of a function
// For example, in a quick and dirty script you might ignore the
// error value returned from os.Create, and expect that the file
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ func learnFlowControl() {
if true {
fmt.Println("told ya")
}
- // Formatting is standardized by the command line command "go fmt."
+ // Formatting is standardized by the command line command "go fmt".
if false {
// Pout.
} else {
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ type pair struct {
x, y int
}
-// Define a method on type pair. Pair now implements Stringer.
+// Define a method on type pair. Pair now implements Stringer because Pair has defined all the methods in the interface.
func (p pair) String() string { // p is called the "receiver"
// Sprintf is another public function in package fmt.
// Dot syntax references fields of p.