Although the sentence is OK as it stands, the section should be tweaked a bit. One of the examples there (myString(0x65e5)) is valid Go but vet rejects it, as part of the move towards disallowing this conversion, which was there mostly for bootstrapping the libraries.
-rob On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 3:10 AM 'Axel Wagner' via golang-nuts < golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Ah, the spec does actually say: >> >> Converting a signed or unsigned integer value to a string type yields a >> string containing the UTF-8 representation of the integer. Values outside >> the range of valid Unicode code points are converted to "\uFFFD". > > > Personally, I think this is fine as is. I think people understand what > happens from these two sentences. > > On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 7:02 PM Axel Wagner <axel.wagner...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > >> I'm not entirely sure. I don't think your phrasing is correct, as it >> doesn't represent what happens if the integer value exceeds the range of >> valid codepoints (i.e. if it needs more than 32 bits to represent). That >> being said, the sentence as is also isn't really precise about it. From >> what I can tell, the result is not valid UTF-8 in any case. >> >> I think it might make sense to file an issue about this, though in >> general that conversion is deprecated anyway and gets flagged by `go vet` >> (and `go test`) because it is not what's usually expected. So I'm not sure >> how important it is to get this exactly right and understandable. >> >> >> On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 5:17 PM Kamil Ziemian <kziemian...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I have some hair splitting question. In the "Conversions to and from a >>> string type" we read: >>> "Converting a signed or unsigned integer value to a string type yields a >>> string containing the UTF-8 representation of the integer." >>> >>> Would it be more corrected to say, that conversion from integer to >>> string gives you UTF-8 representation of code point described by value of >>> the integer? Or maybe it is indeed representation of integer described by >>> UTF-8 specification? >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Kamil >>> czwartek, 28 października 2021 o 19:33:27 UTC+2 Kamil Ziemian napisał(a): >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> From what I understand proper Gopher read at least one time "The Go >>>> Programming Language Specification" (https://golang.org/ref/spec) and >>>> now I need to read it too. >>>> >>>> I learn something of Extended Backus-Naur Form to understand it, so if >>>> I say something stupid beyond belief, I hope you will forgive me. In the >>>> first part "Notation" (https://golang.org/ref/spec#Notation) I believe >>>> that I understand meaning of all concepts except of "production_name". On >>>> one hand "production_name" means that it is name of the production, not >>>> rocket science here. On the other, after reading about EBNF I feel that I >>>> should have more information about it. Can you explain it to me? >>>> >>>> Again I'm new to EBNF, so maybe this is stupid question. >>>> >>>> Best >>>> Kamil >>>> >>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "golang-nuts" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/06347585-fd2c-4bfa-9527-3439389c6414n%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/06347585-fd2c-4bfa-9527-3439389c6414n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAEkBMfHaG8bYNLvLERu0-ad57wpoWsiB%2BFC5asyKA7FH6%2BvgZw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAEkBMfHaG8bYNLvLERu0-ad57wpoWsiB%2BFC5asyKA7FH6%2BvgZw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAOXNBZQ3cNot51jFKA%2B--PGO%2B06p5xdTr%2BVWum20Twz4y3ed6g%40mail.gmail.com.
