to avoid data races.
In the absence of data races, Go programs behave as if all the goroutines
were multiplexed onto a single processor.
This property is sometimes referred to as DRF-SC: data-race-free programs
execute in a sequentially consistent manner.
</p>

<p>
While programmers should write Go programs without data races,
there are limitations to what a Go implementation can do in response to a data race.

features introduced after Go 1.
</p>

<h4 id="Go_1.9">Go 1.9</h4>
<ul>
<li>
An <a href="#Alias_declarations">alias declaration</a> may be used to declare an alias name for a type.
</li>
</ul>

<h4 id="Go_1.13">Go 1.13</h4>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#Integer_literals">Integer literals</a> may use the prefixes <code>0b</code>, <code>0B</code>, <code>0o</code>,

}

// empty a channel
for range ch {}
</pre>


<h3 id="Go_statements">Go statements</h3>

<p>
A "go" statement starts the execution of a function call
as an independent concurrent thread of control, or <i>goroutine</i>,
within the same address space.
</p>

<pre class="ebnf">
GoStmt = "go" Expression .
</pre>

<p>