Thanks for reporting.

My understanding is that the current text is correct and intentional. It refers to conversions like string(x) where x is not a slice type, but rather a rune or byte. Conversions of []byte to string is not the topic being discussed; that's out of scope of #3939.

I'll let @ianlancetaylor who authored CL 234517 confirm. If it turns out more people find the current wording confusing, we can try to improve it.

Yes, the existing text is correct. Thanks for asking about it.

I see, yes. Prompted by your notes as I read it closer I came to understand the text block is only talking about for integer x. My incorrect reading of text had me concerned I'd lose the ability to convert []byte when I want to print as strings, something like:

data, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]interface{}{"JSON": "Yes"})
// data is []byte
fmt.Println("json is", string(data))