From: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:05:20 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: fix a couple of typos.
X-Git-Tag: weekly.2009-11-12~5
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cf16443c69ff45db8b9493a92bec0812111b1c78;p=gostls13.git

fix a couple of typos.
add a mention of range to the tutorial.
change tutorial's title.

R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/152098
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diff --git a/doc/go_spec.html b/doc/go_spec.html
index 203f036a82..bd98c42903 100644
--- a/doc/go_spec.html
+++ b/doc/go_spec.html
@@ -3010,7 +3010,7 @@ yields a function value representing <code>Mv</code> with signature
 </p>
 
 <pre>
-func (tv *T, f int) int
+func (tv *T, a int) int
 </pre>
 
 <p>
diff --git a/doc/go_tutorial.html b/doc/go_tutorial.html
index 77ceb35419..bbd87bb61c 100644
--- a/doc/go_tutorial.html
+++ b/doc/go_tutorial.html
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- Let's Go -->
+<!-- A Tutorial for the Go Programming Language -->
 <h2>Introduction</h2>
 <p>
 This document is a tutorial introduction to the basics of the Go programming
@@ -340,6 +340,24 @@ The built-in function <code>len()</code>, which returns number of elements,
 makes its first appearance in <code>sum</code>.  It works on strings, arrays,
 slices, maps, and channels.
 <p>
+By the way, another thing that works on strings, arrays, slices, maps
+and channels is the <code>range</code> clause on <code>for</code> loops.  Instead of writing
+<p>
+<pre>
+    for i := 0; i < len(a); i++ { ... }
+</pre>
+<p>
+to loop over the elements of a slice (or map or ...) , we could write
+<p>
+<pre>
+    for i, v := range a { ... }
+</pre>
+<p>
+This assigns <code>i</code> to the index and <code>v</code> to the value of the successive
+elements of the target of the range.   See
+<a href='/doc/effective_go.html'>Effective Go</a>
+for more examples of its use.
+<p>
 <p>
 <h2>An Interlude about Allocation</h2>
 <p>
@@ -511,7 +529,7 @@ exported factory to use is <code>Open</code>:
 </pre>
 <p>
 There are a number of new things in these few lines.  First, <code>Open</code> returns
-multiple values, an <code>File</code> and an error (more about errors in a moment).
+multiple values, a <code>File</code> and an error (more about errors in a moment).
 We declare the
 multi-value return as a parenthesized list of declarations; syntactically
 they look just like a second parameter list.  The function
diff --git a/doc/go_tutorial.txt b/doc/go_tutorial.txt
index 8e2effd33f..8d57dffb6f 100644
--- a/doc/go_tutorial.txt
+++ b/doc/go_tutorial.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- Let's Go -->
+<!-- A Tutorial for the Go Programming Language -->
 Introduction
 ----
 
@@ -264,6 +264,20 @@ The built-in function "len()", which returns number of elements,
 makes its first appearance in "sum".  It works on strings, arrays,
 slices, maps, and channels.
 
+By the way, another thing that works on strings, arrays, slices, maps
+and channels is the "range" clause on "for" loops.  Instead of writing
+
+	for i := 0; i < len(a); i++ { ... }
+
+to loop over the elements of a slice (or map or ...) , we could write
+
+	for i, v := range a { ... }
+
+This assigns "i" to the index and "v" to the value of the successive
+elements of the target of the range.   See
+<a href='/doc/effective_go.html'>Effective Go</a>
+for more examples of its use.
+
 
 An Interlude about Allocation
 ----
@@ -391,7 +405,7 @@ exported factory to use is "Open":
 --PROG progs/file.go /func.Open/ /^}/
 
 There are a number of new things in these few lines.  First, "Open" returns
-multiple values, an "File" and an error (more about errors in a moment).
+multiple values, a "File" and an error (more about errors in a moment).
 We declare the
 multi-value return as a parenthesized list of declarations; syntactically
 they look just like a second parameter list.  The function