And to reduce build time, especially for incremental builds. -rob
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 8:17 AM Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:22 AM Michel Levieux <m.levi...@capitaldata.fr> > wrote: > > > > The last few days I've been thinking a lot about the fact that Go does > not allow circular imports. > > I'm not really sure of why it currently works that way, but from what > I've understood the way the compiler works - which is also the reason why > compilation of Go programs is much faster than other languages - makes it > quite difficult to authorize circular imports. > > That's not the real reason. The real reason is to make program > initialization as clear and unambiguous as possible. > > Ian > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
