月份：2016年3月

A string contains an array of bytes that, once created, is immutable. By contrast, the elements of a byte slice can be freely modified.

Strings can be converted to byte slices and back again:
s := “abc”
b := []byte(s)
s2 := string(b)

Conceptually, the []byte(s) conversion allocates a new byte array holding a copy of the bytes of s, and yields a slice that references the entirety of that array. An optimizing compiler may be able to avoid the allocation and copying in some cases, but in general copying is required to ensure that the bytes of s remain unchanged even if those of b are subsequently modified. The conversion from byte slice back to string with string(b) also makes a copy, to ensure immutability of the resulting string s2.

由于Go语言中字符串是不可修改的，因此如果要修改其中内容，就要把其转化成byte slice。此外，byte slice也可以转化成字符串。这两种转化都需要分配一块新的内存，然后进行内容拷贝。

A float32 provides approximately six decimal digits of precision, whereas a float64 provides about 15 digits; float64 should be preferred for most purposes because float32 computations accumulate error rapidly unless one is quite careful, and the smallest positive integer that cannot be exactly represented as a float32 is not large:

var f float32 = 16777216 // 1 << 24
fmt.Println(f == f+1) // “true”!

因为float32计算时累计错误很快，所以大多数时候推荐使用float64。

The math package has functions for creating and detecting the special values defined by IEEE 754: the positive and negative infinities, which represent numbers of excessive magnitude and the result of division by zero; and NaN (“not a number”), the result of such mathematically dubious operations as 0/0 or Sqrt(-1).

var z float64
fmt.Println(z, -z, 1/z, -1/z, z/z) // “0 -0 +Inf -Inf NaN”

要注意正负0，正负无穷和NaN。

The function math.IsNaN tests whether its argument is a not-a-number value, and math.NaN returns such a value. It’s tempting to use NaN as a sentinel value in a numeric computation, but testing whether a specific computational result is equal to NaN is fraught with peril because any comparison with NaN always yields false except !=, which is always the negation of ==:

nan := math.NaN()
fmt.Println(nan != nan, nan == nan, nan < nan, nan > nan) // “true false false false”

要留心数值和NaN比较时的返回值。

When printing numbers using the fmt package, we can control the radix and format with the %d, %o, and %x verbs, as shown in this example:

o := 0666
fmt.Printf(“%d %[1]o %#[1]o\n”, o) // “438 666 0666”
x := int64(0xdeadbeef)
fmt.Printf(“%d %[1]x %#[1]x %#[1]X\n”, x)
// Output:
// 3735928559 deadbeef 0xdeadbeef 0XDEADBEEF

Note the use of two fmt tricks. Usually a Printf format string containing multiple % verbs would require the same number of extra operands, but the [1] “adverbs” after % tell Printf to use the first operand over and over again. Second, the # adverb for %o or %x or %X tells Printf to emit a 0 or 0x or 0X prefix respectively.

Rune literals are written as a character within single quotes. The simplest example is an ASCII character like ‘a’, but it’s possible to write any Unicode code point either directly or with numeric escapes, as we will see shortly.

Runes are printed with %c, or with %q if quoting is desired: ascii := ‘a’
unicode := ‘ ‘
newline := ‘\n’
fmt.Printf(“%d %[1]c %[1]q\n”, ascii) // “97 a ‘a'”
fmt.Printf(“%d %[1]c %[1]q\n”, unicode) // “22269 ‘ ‘”
fmt.Printf(“%d %[1]q\n”, newline) // “10 ‘\n'”

总结一下，“%[1]”还是格式化第一个参数；“%#”会打印出数值的前缀；而“%q”会加上引号。举例如下：

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    var c rune = '楠'
    fmt.Printf("%c %[1]d %#[1]x %[1]q", c)
}

执行结果：

楠 26976 0x6960 '楠'

There are also unary addition and subtraction operators:
+ unary positive (no effect)
– unary negation
For integers, +x is a shorthand for 0+x and -x is a shorthand for 0-x; for floating-point and complex numbers, +x is just x and -x is the negation of x.

Two integers of the same type may be compared using the binary comparison operators below; the type of a comparison expression is a boolean.

== equal to
!= not equal to
< less than
<= less than or equal to
greater than
= greater than or equal to

In fact, all values of basic type—booleans, numbers, and strings—are comparable, meaning that two values of the same type may be compared using the == and != operators. Furthermore, integers, floating-point numbers, and strings are ordered by the comparison operators. The values of many other types are not comparable, and no other types are ordered.

There are also two types called just int and uint that are the natural or most efficient size for signed and unsigned integers on a particular platform; int is by far the most widely used numeric type. Both these types have the same size, either 32 or 64 bits, but one must not make assumptions about which; different compilers may make different choices even on identical hardware.

Finally, there is an unsigned integer type uintptr, whose width is not specified but is sufficient to hold all the bits of a pointer value. The uintptr type is used only for low-level programming, such as at the boundary of a Go program with a C library or an operating system.

Regardless of their size, int, uint, and uintptr are different types from their explicitly sized siblings. Thus int is not the same type as int32, even if the natural size of integers is 32 bits, and an explicit conversion is required to use an int value where an int32 is needed, and vice versa.