validations:
      required: false

  - type: textarea
    id: learning-curve
    attributes:
      label: "Would this change make Go easier or harder to learn, and why?"

  - type: textarea
    id: cost-description
    attributes:
      label: "Cost Description"
      description: "What is the cost of this proposal? (Every language change has a cost)"

the package's Int function can be referred to as <code>·Int</code>.
This convention avoids the need to hard-code a package's import path in its
own source code, making it easier to move the code from one location to another.
</p>

<h3 id="directives">Directives</h3>

<p>
The assembler uses various directives to bind text and data to symbol names.

// converted to int they correspond to the rune size that was read.
type readOp int8

// Don't use iota for these, as the values need to correspond with the
// names and comments, which is easier to see when being explicit.
const (
	opRead      readOp = -1 // Any other read operation.
	opInvalid   readOp = 0  // Non-read operation.
	opReadRune1 readOp = 1  // Read rune of size 1.

Go 1.23 changed the channels created by package time to be unbuffered
(synchronous), which makes correct use of the [`Timer.Stop`](/pkg/time/#Timer.Stop)
and [`Timer.Reset`](/pkg/time/#Timer.Reset) method results much easier.
The [`asynctimerchan` setting](/pkg/time/#NewTimer) disables this change.
There are no runtime metrics for this change,
This setting may be removed in a future release, Go 1.27 at the earliest.

	// An untyped nil does not need a pointer check, and when
	// _cgoCheckPointer returns the untyped nil the type assertion we
	// are going to insert will fail.  Easier to just skip nil arguments.
	// TODO: Note that this fails if nil is shadowed.
	if id, ok := arg.(*ast.Ident); ok && id.Name == "nil" {
		return false
	}

	return p.hasPointer(f, t, true)
}

and less like C and C++, where the meaning of any program with a race
is entirely undefined, and the compiler may do anything at all.
Go's approach aims to make errant programs more reliable and easier to debug,
while still insisting that races are errors and that tools can diagnose and report them.
</p>

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

<p>
The following formal definition of Go's memory model closely follows