Re: [go-nuts] Why + and += operators for string but not slices?

I would take it to mean c := make(elementof(a), len(a)+len(b)) copy(c, a) copy(c[len(a):], b) which is subtly different from append(a, b...). And when you don't care about the difference, it would be less efficient. For strings, on the other hand, it can only mean one of the two (as strings are

Re: [go-nuts] Why + and += operators for string but not slices?

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:02 AM, wrote: > I have not been able to find an explanation. Does anyone care to explain or > point to relevant documentation? Slices are not strings. I think that a + b has an intuitively clear value when a and b are strings. I do not think it does