</p>

<h2 id="conclusion">Conclusion</h2>

<p>
Go programmers writing data-race-free programs can rely on
sequentially consistent execution of those programs,
just as in essentially all other modern programming languages.
</p>

<p>
When it comes to programs with races,
both programmers and compilers should remember the advice:
don't be clever.

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<p>
This is the reference manual for the Go programming language as it was for
language version 1.17, in October 2021, before the introduction of generics.
It is provided for historical interest.
The current reference manual can be found <a href="/doc/go_spec.html">here</a>.

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<p>
This is the reference manual for the Go programming language.
The pre-Go1.18 version, without generics, can be found
<a href="/doc/go1.17_spec.html">here</a>.
For more information and other documents, see <a href="/">go.dev</a>.
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