</p>

<h3 id="overview">Informal Overview</h3>

<p>
Go approaches its memory model in much the same way as the rest of the language,
aiming to keep the semantics simple, understandable, and useful.
This section gives a general overview of the approach and should suffice for most programmers.
The memory model is specified more formally in the next section.
</p>

<p>
A data race is defined as

      <code>Scope</code>,
      <code>File.Scope</code>,
      <code>File.Unresolved</code>,
      <code>Importer</code>,
      <code>Package</code>,
      <code>NewPackage</code>.

      In general, identifiers cannot be accurately resolved without type information.
      Consider, for example, the identifier <code>K</code>
      in <code>T{K: ""}</code>: it could be the name of a local variable

and stop at the end of the line.
</li>
<li>
<i>General comments</i> start with the character sequence <code>/*</code>
and stop with the first subsequent character sequence <code>*/</code>.
</li>
</ol>

<p>
A comment cannot start inside a <a href="#Rune_literals">rune</a> or
<a href="#String_literals">string literal</a>, or inside a comment.
A general comment containing no newlines acts like a space.

what the toolchain actually generates for that operation might
not be a move instruction at all, perhaps a clear or load.
Or it might correspond exactly to the machine instruction with that name.
In general, machine-specific operations tend to appear as themselves, while more general concepts like
memory move and subroutine call and return are more abstract.
The details vary with architecture, and we apologize for the imprecision; the situation is not well-defined.
</p>

	Reader   // includes methods of Reader in ReadCloser's method set
	Close()  // illegal: signatures of Reader.Close and Close are different
}
</pre>

<h4 id="General_interfaces">General interfaces</h4>

<p>
In their most general form, an interface element may also be an arbitrary type term
<code>T</code>, or a term of the form <code>~T</code> specifying the underlying type <code>T</code>,