Yes. I was completely mistaken in my post. Apologies. On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 12:14:36 PM UTC-4, robert engels wrote: > > I quote > > So in the OP's example https://play.golang.org/p/59bpr8TCIge, the > function A() is assigning a []string to the variadic ...[]interface{}. > Since string is assignable to interface{}. this is fine. The function B() > is assigning a []interface{} to the variadic of ...[]string. Since > interface{} is *not *assignable to string, this is not allowed. > > > On Oct 24, 2018, at 11:08 AM, Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Nobody said that. > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2018, 18:04 robert engels <ren...@ix.netcom.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I’m confused… it is A that doesn’t work, and B works… everyone keeps >> stating that B doesn’t work and A works…. >> >> On Oct 24, 2018, at 10:55 AM, jake...@gmail.com <javascript:> wrote: >> >> >> That is correct. The relevant part of >> https://golang.org/ref/spec#Passing_arguments_to_..._parameters is where >> it says: " respective parameter passing rules >> <https://golang.org/ref/spec#Passing_arguments_to_..._parameters>apply". >> This links to >> https://golang.org/ref/spec#Passing_arguments_to_..._parameters which >> says: >> >> "Otherwise, the value passed is a new slice of type []T with a new >> underlying array whose successive elements are the actual arguments, which >> all must be assignable <https://golang.org/ref/spec#Assignability> to T." >> >> So in the OP's example https://play.golang.org/p/59bpr8TCIge, the >> function A() is assigning a []string to the variadic ...[]interface{}. >> Since string is assignable to interface{}. this is fine. The function B() >> is assigning a []interface{} to the variadic of ...[]string. Since >> interface{} is *not *assignable to string, this is not allowed. >> >> Hope that clarifies. >> >> >> On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 9:11:50 AM UTC-4, Robert Engels wrote: >>> >>> But it is the varadic one that works according to OP. >>> >>> On Oct 24, 2018, at 4:19 AM, Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 7:34 AM Mayank Jha <mayank2...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> > why does A() not work while B works here, >>> https://play.golang.org/p/59bpr8TCIge >>> >>> Type mismatch. The compiler is clear about it: >>> >>> prog.go:8:12: cannot use s (type []string) as type []interface >>> {} in append >>> >>> From https://golang.org/ref/spec#Appending_and_copying_slices >>> >>> ---- >>> The variadic function append appends zero or more values x to s of type >>> S, which must be a slice type, >>> and returns the resulting slice, also of type S. The values x are passed >>> to a parameter of type ...T >>> where T is the element typeof S and the respective parameter passing >>> rules apply. As a special case, >>> append also accepts a first argument assignable to type []byte with a >>> second argument of string type >>> followed by .... This form appends the bytes of the string. >>> --- >>> >>> In the OP code, type T is `interface{}`, but the appended elements have >>> type `string`. That violates the above quoted specs. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> -j >>> >>> -- >>> 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...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> >> -- >> 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...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> >> -- >> 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...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > > -j > > >
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