Re: [go-nuts] Dereferencing pointers, function evaluation and tuple assignment

2017-06-01 Thread Will Hawkins
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 1:03 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 9:52 PM, Will Hawkins wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 12:41 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >>> >>> Unlike function calls, the language spec doesn't anything about when a >>> dereference operation is executed. And as

Re: [go-nuts] Dereferencing pointers, function evaluation and tuple assignment

2017-06-01 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 9:52 PM, Will Hawkins wrote: > On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 12:41 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> >> Unlike function calls, the language spec doesn't anything about when a >> dereference operation is executed. And as you can see the current >> compiler does not do the dereference

Re: [go-nuts] Dereferencing pointers, function evaluation and tuple assignment

2017-06-01 Thread Will Hawkins
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 12:41 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Will Hawkins wrote: >> Hello awesome community! >> >> I am so honored to be a part of the great community of gophers around the >> world. Thank you to everyone who makes it so inviting to everyone who wants

Re: [go-nuts] Dereferencing pointers, function evaluation and tuple assignment

2017-06-01 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Will Hawkins wrote: > Hello awesome community! > > I am so honored to be a part of the great community of gophers around the > world. Thank you to everyone who makes it so inviting to everyone who wants > to participate. Thanks for the nice intro. > I am writing

[go-nuts] Dereferencing pointers, function evaluation and tuple assignment

2017-06-01 Thread Will Hawkins
Hello awesome community! I am so honored to be a part of the great community of gophers around the world. Thank you to everyone who makes it so inviting to everyone who wants to participate. I am writing today to ask about some puzzling behavior with respect to dereferencing pointers, functio