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

	"Path": "/ref/spec"
}-->

<h2 id="Introduction">Introduction</h2>

<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>.
</p>

<p>
Go is a general-purpose language designed with systems programming

      it used to start at the opening curly brace of the function body,
      but now starts at the function's <code>func</code> token.
    </p>
  </dd>
</dl>

<dl id="html/template"><dt><a href="/pkg/html/template/">html/template</a></dt>
  <dd>
    <p><!-- https://go.dev/issue/61619, CL 507995 -->
      Javascript template literals may now contain Go template actions, and parsing a template containing one will

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>.
For more information and other documents, see <a href="/">go.dev</a>.
</p>

<p>
Go is a general-purpose language designed with systems programming

cui fliter <******@****.***> 1709196623 +0800

See $GOROOT/cmd/cgo/internal/teststdio and $GOROOT/misc/cgo/gmp for examples. See
"C? Go? Cgo!" for an introduction to using cgo:
https://golang.org/doc/articles/c_go_cgo.html.

CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, FFLAGS and LDFLAGS may be defined with pseudo
#cgo directives within these comments to tweak the behavior of the C, C++
or Fortran compiler. Values defined in multiple directives are concatenated

pkg go/types, method (*Var) Origin() *Var #51682
pkg hash/maphash, func Bytes(Seed, []uint8) uint64 #42710
pkg hash/maphash, func String(Seed, string) uint64 #42710
pkg html/template, method (*Template) Funcs(template.FuncMap) *Template #46121
pkg html/template, type FuncMap = template.FuncMap #46121
pkg net/http, method (*MaxBytesError) Error() string #30715
pkg net/http, type MaxBytesError struct #30715

pkg go/build, type Package struct, XTestDirectives []Directive #56986
pkg go/token, method (*File) Lines() []int #57708
pkg go/types, method (*Package) GoVersion() string #61175
pkg html/template, const ErrJSTemplate = 12 #59584
pkg html/template, const ErrJSTemplate ErrorCode #59584
pkg io/fs, func FormatDirEntry(DirEntry) string #54451
pkg io/fs, func FormatFileInfo(FileInfo) string #54451
pkg log/slog, const KindAny = 0 #56345

	//
	// It is recommended that PAX be chosen over GNU unless the target
	// application can only parse GNU formatted archives.
	//
	// Reference:
	//	https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Standard.html
	FormatGNU

	// Schily's tar format, which is incompatible with USTAR.
	// This does not cover STAR extensions to the PAX format; these fall under
	// the PAX format.
	formatSTAR

	formatMax
)

5. What did you see instead?

For change proposals, see [Proposing Changes To Go](https://go.dev/s/proposal-process).

## Contributing code

Please read the [Contribution Guidelines](https://golang.org/doc/contribute.html) before sending patches.

Unless otherwise noted, the Go source files are distributed under