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cmd/go: documentation unclear with argument parsing for go tool #5566

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gopherbot opened this issue May 27, 2013 · 4 comments
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cmd/go: documentation unclear with argument parsing for go tool #5566

gopherbot opened this issue May 27, 2013 · 4 comments
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by elazarl:

In http://tip.golang.org/cmd/go/#Test_packages the last argument to the test command is
flags to test binaries. It is unclear how to disambiguate package names from test flags
(if you disambiguate by having hyphen - it should be clearly spelled out).

Similar issue arises for go run, with packages ending with ".go".
Documentation should clearly spell out that go arguments are stopped being parsed as go
files after the first argument not ending with ".go".

(I'm not saying Go should support weird package names or arguments with ".go"
suffix, but the rules for argument parsing should be spelled out clearly in the docs.)
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robpike commented May 28, 2013

Comment 1:

Labels changed: added priority-soon, documentation, removed priority-triage.

Owner changed to @robpike.

Status changed to Accepted.

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robpike commented May 30, 2013

Comment 2:

Go run is well specified. Go test needs work and a CL is coming.

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Comment 3 by elazarl:

Even if go run is well specified. a small note like 'go files are files with ".go"
suffix' would help a lot to people like me who weren't sure how go files are defined.

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robpike commented Jun 3, 2013

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This issue was closed by revision 59fb90a.

Status changed to Fixed.

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