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fix up the 'basic types' section. strings were missing

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Rob Pike 2008-05-08 20:58:15 -07:00
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@ -285,11 +285,11 @@ There are basic types and compound types constructed from them.
Basic types
----
Go defines a number of basic types, referred to by their
predeclared type names. There are signed and unsigned integer
and floating point types:
Go defines a number of basic types, referred to by their predeclared
type names. These include traditional arithmetic types, booleans,
strings, and a special polymorphic type.
bool the truth values true and false
The arithmetic types are:
uint8 the set of all unsigned 8-bit integers
uint16 the set of all unsigned 16-bit integers
@ -319,18 +319,27 @@ bits, and the sizes have float <= double.
Also, ``byte'' is an alias for uint8.
Finally, a type ptrint is defined. It is an unsigned integer type
that is the smallest natural integer type of the machine large enough
to store the uninterpreted bits of a pointer value.
An arithmetic type ``ptrint'' is also defined. It is an unsigned
integer type that is the smallest natural integer type of the machine
large enough to store the uninterpreted bits of a pointer value.
Generally, programmers should use these types rather than the explicitly
sized types to maximize portability.
Two reserved words, "true" and "false", represent the
Other basic types include:
bool the truth values true and false
string immutable strings of bytes
any polymorphic type
Two reserved words, ``true'' and ``false'', represent the
corresponding boolean constant values.
There is also a polymorphic type, "any". The "any" type can represent
a value of any type.
Strings are described in a later section.
The polymorphic ``any'' type can represent a value of any type.
TODO: we need a section about any
Numeric literals