On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 9:23 AM Ryan Keppel <ryan.kepp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In the current Golang The name is Go. There's no Golang programming language. > implementation of scanning, there's some extra code to handle ".." in the > source (as two dot tokens). Do you mean this? https://golang.org/src/go/scanner/scanner.go#L837 > Would this ever happen in practice? Sure, why not? Scanner will happily scan two consecutive dot tokens, that's its job. > Two floats together? No. This seems to conflate what a scanner is for with the grammar of the language. Package scanner can handle sources like `for package if not break ..123..` just fine. The language specification not so much. But in Go, as in many other languages, the lexical and syntax grammars are two different things, even though the latter builds upon the former. -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAA40n-WFkTPgUJO93wLcgGqm5fOc1L9NKR%2BPDExBctND6F%2BAog%40mail.gmail.com.
