The first one is a type conversion, not the second.
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 14:59 Soumya Mukherjee <kokhonom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you both. I did not realize the latter syntax is that of a type
> conversion.
>
> On Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 1:43:45 PM UTC-4, Axel Wagner wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 6:09 PM, Soumya Mukherjee <kokho...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am new to Golang. What is/are the difference(s) between the following
>>> declarations?
>>>
>>> []T(nil)
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> []T {}
>>>
>>> Both seem to work identically for me.
>>>
>>
>> https://play.golang.org/p/g6EFru8hUU
>> Literally the only difference.
>>
>>
>>> Also, I was not aware of the first syntax ([]T(nil). Can someone point
>>> me to the Go document where this is introduced?
>>>
>>
>> https://golang.org/ref/spec#Conversions
>>
>>
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