[go-nuts] History: Does the _ (Blank identifier) trace its history back to VI's or something earlier?

2017-02-21 Thread 'pfitzsimons' via golang-nuts
The _ is used as the https://golang.org/ref/spec#Blank_identifier to ignore right-hand side values in an assignment (https://golang.org/ref/spec#Assignments) In VI(M) _ is used as a black hole register http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/change.html#registers when you want to delete clipboar

[go-nuts] Change to https://golang.org/doc/install

2017-02-03 Thread 'pfitzsimons' via golang-nuts
I guess the reference to GOROOT can be removed now, is there a reason its still in the install docs? as Dave say's in a galaxy a long time ago https://dave.cheney.net/2013/06/14/you-dont-need-to-set-goroot-really "Installing to a custom location The Go binary distributions assume they will be