<h3 id="multiple_assignment">Multiple assignment</h3>
<p>
-The language specification guarantees that in assignments
+The language specification has long guaranteed that in assignments
the right-hand-side expressions are all evaluated before any left-hand-side expressions are assigned.
To guarantee predictable behavior,
Go 1 refines the specification further.
<p>
Second, Go 1 removes the definition of equality for function values,
except for comparison with <code>nil</code>.
-Finally, Map equality is gone too, also except for comparison with <code>nil</code>,
-although it may return one day in a more intuitive form.
+Finally, map equality is gone too, also except for comparison with <code>nil</code>.
</p>
<p>
The old <code>Parser</code> type is renamed
<a href="/pkg/encoding/xml/#Decoder"><code>Decoder</code></a> and has a new
<a href="/pkg/encoding/xml/#Decoder.Decode"><code>Decode</code></a> method. An
-<a href="/pkg/encoding/xml/#Encoder"><code>Encoder</code></a> type was also introduced.
+<a href="/pkg/encoding/xml/#Encoder"><code>Encoder</code></a> type was also introduced.
</p>
<p>
<h3 id="multiple_assignment">Multiple assignment</h3>
<p>
-The language specification guarantees that in assignments
+The language specification has long guaranteed that in assignments
the right-hand-side expressions are all evaluated before any left-hand-side expressions are assigned.
To guarantee predictable behavior,
Go 1 refines the specification further.
<p>
Second, Go 1 removes the definition of equality for function values,
except for comparison with <code>nil</code>.
-Finally, Map equality is gone too, also except for comparison with <code>nil</code>,
-although it may return one day in a more intuitive form.
+Finally, map equality is gone too, also except for comparison with <code>nil</code>.
</p>
<p>
The old <code>Parser</code> type is renamed
<a href="/pkg/encoding/xml/#Decoder"><code>Decoder</code></a> and has a new
<a href="/pkg/encoding/xml/#Decoder.Decode"><code>Decode</code></a> method. An
-<a href="/pkg/encoding/xml/#Encoder"><code>Encoder</code></a> type was also introduced.
+<a href="/pkg/encoding/xml/#Encoder"><code>Encoder</code></a> type was also introduced.
</p>
<p>