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From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ot: pascal rides again?
Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 09:19:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFgOgC9Vu3zsd+h+LVHBaV1An5TUWu4efuLTBzq3mi3mOP8xoQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0de965508a7a944ef6bf0c0af1082091@brasstown.quanstro.net>

http://blog.golang.org/go-slices-usage-and-internals

2015-05-24 8:55 GMT-07:00 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
>> Uhm I might be mistaken, but I guess [8192]byte is an array, and []byte are
>> slices - therefore they are different types.
>>
>
> yes, exactly.  i suppose this implies that different size arrays are not type compatable
> (yea pascal).  also the fu := bar[:] looks a lot like the tedious casting from c, and implies
> dynamic allocation of the slice, i'm guessing.
>
> - erik
>



  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-24 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-23 15:53 erik quanstrom
2015-05-23 16:17 ` Eduardo Alvarez
2015-05-23 16:26   ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2015-05-23 18:14 ` C Cirello
2015-05-23 18:25   ` Ryan Gonzalez
2015-05-24 15:55   ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-24 16:19     ` Devon H. O'Dell [this message]
2015-05-24 17:02     ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2015-05-24 17:53       ` Ryan Gonzalez
2015-05-24 17:50     ` Ryan Gonzalez
2015-05-24 19:00     ` Bakul Shah
2015-05-24 19:36       ` Ryan Gonzalez
2015-05-24 21:25     ` minux
2015-05-25  1:26       ` C Cirello
2015-05-25  5:39       ` lucio
2015-05-25  7:59       ` Bakul Shah

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