From: Robert Griesemer Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:44:19 +0000 (-0700) Subject: go spec: clarifications for range clause X-Git-Tag: weekly.2010-09-29~23 X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5474e166bc0b6c69a0a44730c19ecba09b1f9ed2;p=gostls13.git go spec: clarifications for range clause R=iant, r, rsc, rog CC=golang-dev https://golang.org/cl/2226047 --- diff --git a/doc/go_spec.html b/doc/go_spec.html index ea7a75c497..8e1b45ab96 100644 --- a/doc/go_spec.html +++ b/doc/go_spec.html @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - + @@ -3572,8 +3571,8 @@ f(x+y)

The "++" and "--" statements increment or decrement their operands by the untyped constant 1. -As with an assignment, the operand must be a variable, pointer indirection, -field selector or index expression. +As with an assignment, the operand must be addressable +or a map index expression. 

@@ -3591,6 +3590,7 @@ x++                 x += 1
 x--                 x -= 1
+

Assignments

@@ -3949,59 +3949,81 @@ for      { S() }    is the same as    for true     { S() }
 

 A "for" statement with a "range" clause
 iterates through all entries of an array, slice, string or map,
-or values received on a channel.
-For each entry it first assigns the current index or key to an iteration
-variable - or the current (index, element) or (key, value) pair to a pair
-of iteration variables - and then executes the block.
+or values received on a channel. For each entry it assigns iteration values
+to corresponding iteration variables and then executes the block.
 

 
 
-RangeClause = ExpressionList ( "=" | ":=" ) "range" Expression .
-

-
-

-The type of the right-hand expression in the "range" clause must be an
-array, slice, string or map, or a pointer to an array;
-or it may be a channel.
-Except for channels,
-the identifier list must contain one or two expressions
-(as in assignments, these must be a
-variable, pointer indirection, field selector, or index expression)
-denoting the
-iteration variables. On each iteration,
-the first variable is set to the string, array or slice index or
-map key, and the second variable, if present, is set to the corresponding
-string or array element or map value.
-The types of the array or slice index (always int)
-and element, or of the map key and value respectively,
-must be assignable to
-the type of the iteration variables.  The expression on the right hand
-side is evaluated once before beginning the loop.  At each iteration
-of the loop, the values produced by the range clause are assigned to
-the left hand side as in an assignment
-statement.  Function calls on the left hand side will be evaluated
-exactly once per iteration.
-

-

-For a value of a string type, the "range" clause iterates over the Unicode code points
-in the string.  On successive iterations, the index variable will be the
-index of the first byte of successive UTF-8-encoded code points in the string, and
-the second variable, of type int, will be the value of
+RangeClause = Expression [ "," Expression ] ( "=" | ":=" ) "range" Expression .
+
+ +

+The expression on the right in the "range" clause is called the range expression, +which may be an array, pointer to an array, slice, string, map, or channel. +As with an assignment, the operands on the left must be +addressable or map index expressions; they +denote the iteration variables. If the range expression is a channel, only +one iteration variable is permitted, otherwise there may be one or two. +

+ +

+The range expression is evaluated once before beginning the loop. +Function calls on the left are evaluated once per iteration. +For each iteration, iteration values are produced as follows: +

+ +
+Range expression                          1st value          2nd value (if 2nd variable is present)
+
+array or slice  a  [n]E, *[n]E, or []E    index    i  int    a[i]       E
+string          s  string type            index    i  int    see below  int
+map             m  map[K]V                key      k  K      m[k]       V
+channel         c  chan E                 element  e  E
+
+ +
    +
  1. +For an array or slice value, the index iteration values are produced in +increasing order, starting at element index 0. +
    2. + +
  2. +For a string value, the "range" clause iterates over the Unicode code points +in the string starting at byte index 0. On successive iterations, the index value will be the +index of the first byte of successive UTF-8-encoded code points in the string, +and the second value, of type int, will be the value of the corresponding code point. If the iteration encounters an invalid -UTF-8 sequence, the second variable will be 0xFFFD, +UTF-8 sequence, the second value will be 0xFFFD, the Unicode replacement character, and the next iteration will advance a single byte in the string. -

    +
    3. + +
  3. +The iteration order over maps is not specified. +If map entries that have not yet been reached are deleted during iteration, +the corresponding iteration values will not be produced. If map entries are +inserted during iteration, the behavior is implementation-dependent, but the +iteration values for each entry will be produced at most once. +
    4. + +
  4. +For channels, the iteration values produced are the successive values sent on +the channel until the channel is closed; it does not produce the zero value sent +before the channel is closed +(§close and closed). +
    5. +
-For channels, the identifier list must contain one identifier. -The iteration receives values sent on the channel until the channel is closed; -it does not process the zero value sent before the channel is closed. +The iteration values are assigned to the respective +iteration variables as in an assignment statement.

+

-The iteration variables may be declared by the "range" clause (":="), in which -case their scope ends at the end of the "for" statement (§Declarations and -scope rules). In this case their types are set to -int and the array element type, or the map key and value types, respectively. +The iteration variables may be declared by the "range" clause (:=). +In this case their types are set to the types of the respective iteration values +and their scope ends at the end of the "for" +statement; they are re-used in each iteration. If the iteration variables are declared outside the "for" statement, after execution their values will be those of the last iteration.

@@ -4026,11 +4048,6 @@ for key, val = range m { // val == map[key] -

-If map entries that have not yet been processed are deleted during iteration, -they will not be processed. If map entries are inserted during iteration, the -behavior is implementation-dependent, but each entry will be processed at most once. -

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