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x/tour: #42 (Mutating Maps) redundant explanation #7500

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gopherbot opened this issue Mar 9, 2014 · 5 comments
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x/tour: #42 (Mutating Maps) redundant explanation #7500

gopherbot opened this issue Mar 9, 2014 · 5 comments
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by oneorjuan:

Check the last 2 paragraphs of the "Mutating Maps" chapter:
http://tour.golang.org/#42

"If key is in m, ok is true. If not, ok is false and elem is the zero value for the
map's element type.

Similarly, when reading from a map if the key is not present the result is the zero
value for the map's element type."

They say the same thing with very similar words, making one to think that maybe the
second paragraph is actually an errata and it was supposed to explain something else.
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robpike commented Mar 26, 2014

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kytrinyx commented Oct 8, 2015

These are not exactly equivalent, as the first sentence refers to the two-value assignment, and the second refers to a read (m[key]).

Perhaps something like this would feel less echo-y:

If `key` is in `m`, `ok` is `true`. If not, `ok` is `false`.

If `key` is not in the map, then `elem` is the zero value for the map's
element type, both when reading from `m` and when using the two-value
assignment.

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adg commented Oct 8, 2015

How about just this:

If key is in m, ok is true. If not, ok is false.

If key is not in the map, then elem is the zero value for the map's element type.

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kytrinyx commented Oct 8, 2015

Yeah, on re-reading it, I think that would work. At first glance it seems like it might only refer to the example immediately above, but it's pretty safe to assume that people will infer that the behavior is the same for the read as for the two-value assignment.

I'll make the change.

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adg commented Oct 8, 2015

Thanks!

On 8 October 2015 at 16:59, Katrina Owen notifications@github.com wrote:

Yeah, on re-reading it, I think that would work. At first glance it seems
like it might only refer to the example immediately above, but it's pretty
safe to assume that people will infer that the behavior is the same for the
read as for the two-value assignment.

I'll make the change.

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[x/tour] content: remove echo in mutating maps slide
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The duplication is not exact. The first reference is to the
two-value assignment, and the second sentence refers to reads.

However, it is fairly safe to assume that readers will infer that
the explanation is valid for both contexts.

Fixes golang/go#7500

Change-Id: I93903c0be27099ced34a6808cdb4f0a65dc5f2e6
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/15602
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
X-Tour-Commit: 258270064d09854eec74df7efae0fa1e2e24607b
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[x/tour] content: remove echo in mutating maps slide
70461a6 
The duplication is not exact. The first reference is to the
two-value assignment, and the second sentence refers to reads.

However, it is fairly safe to assume that readers will infer that
the explanation is valid for both contexts.

Fixes golang/go#7500

Change-Id: I93903c0be27099ced34a6808cdb4f0a65dc5f2e6
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/15602
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
X-Tour-Commit: 258270064d09854eec74df7efae0fa1e2e24607b
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content: remove echo in mutating maps slide
5f92cad 
The duplication is not exact. The first reference is to the
two-value assignment, and the second sentence refers to reads.

However, it is fairly safe to assume that readers will infer that
the explanation is valid for both contexts.

Fixes golang/go#7500

Change-Id: I93903c0be27099ced34a6808cdb4f0a65dc5f2e6
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/15602
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
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