(as opposed to the three characters <code>...</code>) is not a token of the Go
language.
</p>

<h2 id="Source_code_representation">Source code representation</h2>

<p>
Source code is Unicode text encoded in
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8">UTF-8</a>. The text is not
canonicalized, so a single accented code point is distinct from the
same character constructed from combining an accent and a letter;

</p>

<h2 id="model">Memory Model</h2>

<p>
The following formal definition of Go's memory model closely follows
the approach presented by Hans-J. Boehm and Sarita V. Adve in
“<a href="https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2008/HPL-2008-56.pdf">Foundations of the C++ Concurrency Memory Model</a>”,
published in PLDI 2008.
The definition of data-race-free programs and the guarantee of sequential consistency

The document is not comprehensive.
</p>

<p>
The assembler is based on the input style of the Plan 9 assemblers, which is documented in detail
<a href="https://9p.io/sys/doc/asm.html">elsewhere</a>.
If you plan to write assembly language, you should read that document although much of it is Plan 9-specific.
The current document provides a summary of the syntax and the differences with

The syntax is compact and simple to parse, allowing for easy analysis
by automatic tools such as integrated development environments.
</p>

<h2 id="Notation">Notation</h2>
<p>
The syntax is specified using a
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth_syntax_notation">variant</a>
of Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF):
</p>

<pre class="grammar">
Syntax      = { Production } .
Production  = production_name "=" [ Expression ] "." .