On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 11:25 AM Jamie Caldwell <mr.jamie.caldw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But why would you use one over the other? Why does Go support being able to assign a codepoint using single quotes? `type rune` vs type `string` not the same, but is bit like `type byte` vs `type []byte`. The serve very different purposes. One cannot do the same things with `byte` that can be done with `[]byte`. > Also, why do they take more than three bytes each? `rune` is an alias of `int32`, hence 4 bytes. `string` is a two word struct, hence 2*size of pointer. 8 or 16 bytes. -- -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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
