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map access.
</p>
<h3 id="language_changes">
Will you accept my language change?</h3>
<p>
People often suggest improvements to the language—the
<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts">mailing list</a>
contains a rich history of such discussions—but very few of these changes have
been accepted.
</p>
<p>
Although Go is an open source project, the language and libraries are protected
by a <a href="/doc/go1compat.html">compatibility promise</a> that prevents
changes that break existing programs.
If your proposal violates the Go 1 specification we cannot even entertain the
idea, regardless of its merit.
A future major release of Go may be incompatible with Go 1, but we're not ready
to start talking about what that might be.
</p>
<p>
Even if your proposal is compatible with the Go 1 spec, it may be
not be in the spirit of Go's design goals.
The article <i><a href="http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article">Go
at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering</a></i>
explains Go's origins and the motivation behind its design.
</p>
<h2 id="types">Types</h2>
<h3 id="Is_Go_an_object-oriented_language">