Commit fe582137 authored by Robert Griesemer's avatar Robert Griesemer

- removed fall-through for case: case: in switch statements

- added ()'s to all print calls in examples
- augmented rule about use of identifiers

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parent 968701be
......@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ The Go Programming Language (DRAFT)
Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, Ken Thompson
----
(August 7, 2008)
(August 11, 2008)
This document is a semi-formal specification/proposal for a new
systems programming language. The document is under active
......@@ -321,8 +321,8 @@ Reserved words
else if range var
export import
TODO: "len" is currently also a reserved word - it shouldn't be.
With the exception of structure fields and methods, reserved words may
not be declared as identifiers.
Types
......@@ -1357,9 +1357,9 @@ pointer or interface value.
var p *int;
if p != nil {
print p
print(p)
} else {
print "p points nowhere"
print("p points nowhere")
}
By default, pointers are initialized to nil.
......@@ -1735,9 +1735,9 @@ The value of the boolean reports true if the communication succeeded,
false if it did not. These two examples are equivalent:
ok := ch -< 3;
if ok { print "sent" } else { print "not sent" }
if ok { print("sent") } else { print("not sent") }
if ch -< 3 { print "sent" } else { print "not sent" }
if ch -< 3 { print("sent") } else { print("not sent") }
In other words, if the program tests the value of a send operation,
the send is non-blocking and the value of the expression is the
......@@ -1753,7 +1753,7 @@ As with send operations, in expression context this form may
be used as a boolean and makes the receive non-blocking:
ok := e <- ch;
if ok { print "received", e } else { print "did not receive" }
if ok { print("received", e) } else { print("did not receive") }
The receive operator may also be used as a prefix unary operator
on a channel.
......@@ -1873,8 +1873,7 @@ Switch statements
Switches provide multi-way execution.
SwitchStat = "switch" [ [ Simplestat ] ";" ] [ Expression ] "{" { CaseClause } "}" .
CaseClause = CaseList [ StatementList [ ";" ] ] [ "fallthrough" [ ";" ] ] .
CaseList = Case { Case } .
CaseClause = Case [ StatementList [ ";" ] ] [ "fallthrough" [ ";" ] ] .
Case = ( "case" ExpressionList | "default" ) ":" .
There can be at most one default case in a switch statement.
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