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gopherbot opened this issue Apr 30, 2014 · 8 comments
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go/build: not documented that files with leading underscore are ignored #7909

gopherbot opened this issue Apr 30, 2014 · 8 comments
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by ibit.zee:

go version go1.2.1 windows/386

command line is : go run _test1.go
error is : no buildable Go source files in C:\APL\!PROGRAMMING\GO

the problem is the underscore (_) in the file name, causes the file to not be found...

ZEE ;-)
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Comment 1:

This is intentional.  Files whose names start with '_' or '.' are ignored (an underscore
elsewhere in the file name is OK).
However, I can't find any documentation for that, so changing this to a documentation
issue.

Labels changed: added repo-main, release-go1.3maybe, documentation.

Status changed to Accepted.

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Comment 2:

ibit.zee,
Why "!" in "C:\APL\!PROGRAMMING\GO"? Is that intentional?
Alex

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minux commented May 1, 2014

Comment 3:

it's documented:
http://golang.org/pkg/go/build/#Context.Import

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cespare commented May 1, 2014

Comment 4:

The relevant documentation is here:
http://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Description_of_package_lists
"File names that begin with "." or "_" are ignored by the go tool."
#3: That is for the go/build package, not the go tool.

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minux commented May 2, 2014

Comment 5:

the summary of the issue says this issue targets "go/build", not cmd/go, i was replying
to that.
also, cmd/go does point to go/build.

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minux commented May 2, 2014

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Status changed to Duplicate.

Merged into issue #5655.

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Comment 7 by anonymouzee:

A file starting with underscore '_' (or any other char, as in other main languages)
should be valid!
?why not... ?is there a compeling reason

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Comment 8:

A closed issue is not the right place for discussion of behaviour that is documented and
implemented.  Bring it up on the mailing list.

@gopherbot gopherbot added duplicate Documentation Issues describing a change to documentation. labels May 3, 2014
@rsc rsc added this to the Go1.3 milestone Apr 14, 2015
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