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builtin: use type aliases for rune and byte
authorBrad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Tue, 6 Jun 2017 22:17:50 +0000 (22:17 +0000)
committerBrad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
Wed, 7 Jun 2017 00:42:59 +0000 (00:42 +0000)
commit703a9baf5c210ac3955ddaa9df1efcdb2786ab1d
tree781703889303f1e4cd6c7c5a8bac60870a09704b
parenta027466e4b6d594fd8b562094fe63a9c4c6ec4f7
builtin: use type aliases for rune and byte

As motivated by https://golang.org/design/18130-type-alias which says:

https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/18130-type-alias.md#relationship-to-byte-and-rune

> The language specification already defines byte as an alias for
> uint8 and similarly rune as an alias for int32, using the word alias
> as an informal term. It is a goal that the new type declaration
> semantics not introduce a different meaning for alias. That is, it
> should be possible to describe the existing meanings of byte and
> uint8 by saying that they behave as if predefined by:
>
>     type byte = uint8
>     type rune = int32

So, do that. Seems to work.

Updates #18130

Change-Id: I0740bab3f8fb23e946f3542fdbe819007a99465a
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/45017
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
src/builtin/builtin.go