OK, thanks for the clarification on the size being immutable.(I am trying
to teach myself Go)
Still I want to know what happens when this statement is executed
sort.Ints(scores[:])
- Sort creates a slice
- The slice is sorted
- Sort copies the slice into the array
Is this what is happening?
Thanks
On Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 4:30:37 PM UTC-8, Michael Jones wrote:
>
> array contents are not immutable, just their size.
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 4:13 PM, Néstor Flórez <rot...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> The below code sorts an array but it does it an by creating a slice,
>> correct?
>> What happened to the original array?
>> Arrays are inmutable
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> package main
>> import ("fmt"
>> "sort")
>>
>> func main(){
>> var scores [10]int // creates array scores
>> scores[0]= 99 // sets 1st element to 99
>> fmt.Println("SCORES \n", scores) //print the unsorted array
>>
>> sort.Ints(scores[:]) //creates a slice "scores"
>> fmt.Println("\n", scores) //print the slice "scores"
>> } //what happened to
>> the array scores?
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [99 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0]
>>
>> [0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 99]
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Thanks
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