On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 4:41 AM Daniel Lepage <dplep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This change would be entirely backward-compatible ... Let's consider, for example, the type uint8, aka byte. A variable of type byte is specified* to occupy 8 bits of memory and has 256 possible values. To represent all those values and the new possibility of the value being nil, we need 257 distinct values. But that does not fit 8 in bits anymore. However, changing the size and/or the bit representation of such a variable is observable, making it not backwards-compatible. ---- *: From https://go.dev/ref/spec#Numeric_types: """" The value of an n-bit integer is n bits wide and represented using two's complement arithmetic. """" -- 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-XCMSmhEDGL04NfhOVpexG3GCDA0Vj2dq138pWJVSBnwA%40mail.gmail.com.
