Thank for expanding on that. As a Go newbie, I didn't see how Jan's response answered your question, but you made it clear.
On Sunday, November 18, 2018 at 4:34:00 PM UTC-6, gith...@gmail.com wrote: > > Thank you Jan, > I read the spec a bit more carefully after you pointed it out and I now > understand that a constant and a non-constant value are treated differently > and that my examples above is an example of just this. > > "A constant value x can be converted to type T if x is representable by a > value of T" > In my example -65 is not representable in a byte (uint8) > > while for a non-constant, value x can be converted to type T if > "x's type and T are both integer or floating point types" > > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.