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Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 09:19:45 -0700
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ot: pascal rides again?
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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
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