From: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:11:17 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: builtin: document appending a string to a byte slice
X-Git-Tag: go1.1rc2~795
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f12796e9f7233266163d4003b528dd099b0f1799;p=gostls13.git

builtin: document appending a string to a byte slice
Fixes #4873.

R=golang-dev, bradfitz
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/7421043
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diff --git a/src/pkg/builtin/builtin.go b/src/pkg/builtin/builtin.go
index 91d263a623..7b5e9ab1d6 100644
--- a/src/pkg/builtin/builtin.go
+++ b/src/pkg/builtin/builtin.go
@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ type ComplexType complex64
 // result of append, often in the variable holding the slice itself:
 //	slice = append(slice, elem1, elem2)
 //	slice = append(slice, anotherSlice...)
+// As a special case, it is legal to append a string to a byte slice, like this:
+//	slice = append([]byte("hello "), "world"...)
 func append(slice []Type, elems ...Type) []Type
 
 // The copy built-in function copies elements from a source slice into a