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builtin: cannot call print with multiple return values #7640

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rui314 opened this issue Mar 26, 2014 · 6 comments
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builtin: cannot call print with multiple return values #7640

rui314 opened this issue Mar 26, 2014 · 6 comments

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@rui314
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rui314 commented Mar 26, 2014

What does 'go version' print?
go version devel +0a3722aa9092 Mon Mar 24 21:22:16 2014 -0400 linux/amd64

What steps reproduce the problem?
http://play.golang.org/p/UooyhhaOXQ

What happened?
Although print takes zero or more parameters, it cannot be called in the form of
print(f()), where f is a function returning two or more values. It looks inconsistent
and is sometimes a bit inconvenient.
@robpike
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robpike commented Mar 26, 2014

Comment 1:

Not worth fixing. The print and println builtins are only for debugging, not convenience.

Status changed to WontFix.

@i3d
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i3d commented Mar 26, 2014

Comment 2:

This is not just the builtin print or println. For example, fmt.Println or fmt.Printf
have the same issue. It seems that for any function signature with foo(a ...T), it will
accept parameters from a function with multi-value returns, but for any other forms
(e.g. foo(b string, a ...T)), it does not. The compiler will consider the return is in a
single-value context. This looks like a language limitation though, not really a bug per
se.
On the flip side, if we were planning to fix it, I'd suggest we could support a syntax
something like this: foo(a, f()...) where f()... denotes to assign multi-value returns
to the []T slice.

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cznic commented Mar 26, 2014

Comment 3:

@2: No, it works just fine: http://play.golang.org/p/ZZgIoN2FTw

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rui314 commented Mar 26, 2014

Comment 4:

@2 and @3: Please refer the paragraph starting with "As a special case" in the language
spec (http://golang.org/ref/spec#Calls) for normal function calls. fmt.Println is
working as what the spec says.

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i3d commented Mar 27, 2014

Comment 5:

Ah.. Thanks Rob! That makes everything clear now.

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rui314 commented Mar 27, 2014

Comment 6:

My username starts with "r" but I'm not Rob Pike. :)

@rui314 rui314 added the wontfix label Mar 27, 2014
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