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x/tour: explain function syntax better #4284

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btracey opened this issue Oct 25, 2012 · 13 comments
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x/tour: explain function syntax better #4284

btracey opened this issue Oct 25, 2012 · 13 comments
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btracey commented Oct 25, 2012 

For those of us who are trying to pick up Go, but aren't CS majors, could we change the
description of 

http://tour.golang.org/#39

to be more explicit? I'm not sure how to parse the adder function declaration

func adder() func(int) int

It appears that adder is a function which takes no arguments, but returns a function
which takes an int as an argument and returns an int? Assuming that's correct, could you
also state how that works if it's nested? For example, what if the function adder
returns is also a closure? Is the definition

func adder() func1(int) func2(int) int

?
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robpike commented Oct 30, 2012

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rsc commented Dec 10, 2012

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adg commented Dec 4, 2013

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@rsc rsc added this to the Unplanned milestone Apr 10, 2015
@rsc rsc changed the title go.tour: explain function syntax better x/tour: explain function syntax better Apr 14, 2015
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kytrinyx commented Oct 8, 2015

This is now /moretypes/21.

The slide is focusing on the closure, and the function signature seems somewhat incidental. I suspect that adding explanations regarding the function signature might distract from the main point.

@adg What about adding a separate slide about function values?

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adg commented Oct 8, 2015

The previous slide is about function values, but it doesn't say much. We could certainly expand on that.

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Agreed. I'll take this one.

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Would it be too much to expand the code example for the function values slide? E.g. something like this:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "math"
)

func compute(x, y float64, fn func(float64, float64) float64) float64 {
    return fn(x, y)
}

func main() {
    hypot := func(x, y float64) float64 {
        return math.Sqrt(x*x + y*y)
    }
    fmt.Println(hypot(5, 12))

    fmt.Println(compute(3, 4, hypot))
    fmt.Println(compute(3, 4, math.Pow))
}

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adg commented Oct 12, 2015

@kytrinyx how about just having compute take a single argument—the function—and then it does fmt.Println(fn(3, 4)). Then the example gets smaller too.

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Oh, nice. Yepp, I like that.

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content: fix typo on function values slide
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Typo introduced when addressing golang/go#4284

Change-Id: Iba8e9e8ef4c8fa528c10c42cf4cff244086712aa
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/15801
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
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[x/tour] content: elaborate on function values
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The description was a little bit sparse.

The next slide talks about closures, but since the idea of
function values wasn't clear to all readers, some people got
confused when the next slide defined a function that had
a function as a return value.

Fixes golang/go#4284

Change-Id: Id71f71cafb7c411dbad8306980f7eb1d75aa59e5
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/15752
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
X-Tour-Commit: 500288ff415f380583e271decde1cde70e3348ef
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[x/tour] content: elaborate on function values
505d264 
The description was a little bit sparse.

The next slide talks about closures, but since the idea of
function values wasn't clear to all readers, some people got
confused when the next slide defined a function that had
a function as a return value.

Fixes golang/go#4284

Change-Id: Id71f71cafb7c411dbad8306980f7eb1d75aa59e5
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/15752
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
X-Tour-Commit: 500288ff415f380583e271decde1cde70e3348ef
KimuraDanaka119 added a commit to KimuraDanaka119/go-tour-jp that referenced this issue Jun 4, 2023
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content: elaborate on function values
8918798 
The description was a little bit sparse.

The next slide talks about closures, but since the idea of
function values wasn't clear to all readers, some people got
confused when the next slide defined a function that had
a function as a return value.

Fixes golang/go#4284

Change-Id: Id71f71cafb7c411dbad8306980f7eb1d75aa59e5
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/15752
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
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