From ba6fe5172d5dbd604ef6f535ce54fc70f0c0d1d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 15:52:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] spec: clarify that []byte("") must be non-nil

The example text below suggests that []byte("") always evaluates to
the non-nil value []byte{}, but the text proper doesn't explicitly
require that. This CL makes it clear that it must not evaluate to
[]byte(nil), which otherwise was allowed by the wording.

Change-Id: I6564bfd5e2fd0c820d9b55d17406221ff93ce80c
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/521035
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@google.com>
Auto-Submit: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gopher Robot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Run-TryBot: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>
---
 doc/go_spec.html | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/go_spec.html b/doc/go_spec.html
index a65e466fe4..0806fd738b 100644
--- a/doc/go_spec.html
+++ b/doc/go_spec.html
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!--{
 	"Title": "The Go Programming Language Specification",
-	"Subtitle": "Version of Aug 18, 2023",
+	"Subtitle": "Version of Aug 21, 2023",
 	"Path": "/ref/spec"
 }-->
 
@@ -5570,7 +5570,7 @@ myString([]myRune{0x1f30e})              // "\U0001f30e" == "🌎"
 
 <li>
 Converting a value of a string type to a slice of bytes type
-yields a slice whose successive elements are the bytes of the string.
+yields a non-nil slice whose successive elements are the bytes of the string.
 
 <pre>
 []byte("hellø")             // []byte{'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', '\xc3', '\xb8'}
-- 
2.50.0