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// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
/*
Package builtin provides documentation for Go's built-in functions.
The functions documented here are not actually in package builtin
but their descriptions here allow godoc to present documentation
for the language's special functions.
*/
package builtin
// Type is here for the purposes of documentation only. It is a stand-in
// for any Go type, but represents the same type for any given function
// invocation.
type Type int
// IntegerType is here for the purposes of documentation only. It is a stand-in
// for any integer type: int, uint, int8 etc.
type IntegerType int
// FloatType is here for the purposes of documentation only. It is a stand-in
// for either float type: float32 or float64.
type FloatType int
// ComplexType is here for the purposes of documentation only. It is a
// stand-in for either complex type: complex64 or complex128.
type ComplexType int
// The append built-in function appends elements to the end of a slice. If
// it has sufficient capacity, the destination is resliced to accommodate the
// new elements. If it does not, a new underlying array will be allocated.
// Append returns the updated slice. It is therefore necessary to store the
// result of append, often in the variable holding the slice itself:
// slice = append(slice, elem1, elem2)
// slice = append(slice, anotherSlice...)
func append(slice []Type, elems ...Type) []Type
// The copy built-in function copies elements from a source slice into a
// destination slice. (As a special case, it also will copy bytes from a
// string to a slice of bytes.) The source and destination may overlap. Copy
// returns the number of elements copied, which will be the minimum of
// len(src) and len(dst).
func copy(dst, src []Type) int
// The len built-in function returns the length of v, according to its type:
// Array: the number of elements in v.
// Pointer to array: the number of elements in *v (even if v is nil).
// Slice, or map: the number of elements in v; if v is nil, len(v) is zero.
// String: the number of bytes in v.
// Channel: the number of elements queued (unread) in the channel buffer;
// if v is nil, len(v) is zero.
func len(v Type) int
// The cap built-in function returns the capacity of v, according to its type:
// Array: the number of elements in v (same as len(v)).
// Pointer to array: the number of elements in *v (same as len(v)).
// Slice: the maximum length the slice can reach when resliced;
// if v is nil, cap(v) is zero.
// Channel: the channel buffer capacity, in units of elements;
// if v is nil, cap(v) is zero.
func cap(v Type) int
// The make built-in function allocates and initializes an object of type
// slice, map, or chan (only). Like new, the first argument is a type, not a
// value. Unlike new, make's return type is the same as the type of its
// argument, not a pointer to it. The specification of the result depends on
// the type:
// Slice: The size specifies the length. The capacity of the slice is
// equal to its length. A second integer argument may be provided to
// specify a different capacity; it must be no smaller than the
// length, so make([]int, 0, 10) allocates a slice of length 0 and
// capacity 10.
// Map: An initial allocation is made according to the size but the
// resulting map has length 0. The size may be omitted, in which case
// a small starting size is allocated.
// Channel: The channel's buffer is initialized with the specified
// buffer capacity. If zero, or the size is omitted, the channel is
// unbuffered.
func make(Type, size IntegerType) Type
// The new built-in function allocates memory. The first argument is a type,
// not a value, and the value returned is a pointer to a newly
// allocated zero value of that type.
func new(Type) *Type
// The complex built-in function constructs a complex value from two
// floating-point values. The real and imaginary parts must be of the same
// size, either float32 or float64 (or assignable to them), and the return
// value will be the corresponding complex type (complex64 for float32,
// complex128 for float64).
func complex(r, i FloatType) ComplexType
// The real built-in function returns the real part of the complex number c.
// The return value will be floating point type corresponding to the type of c.
func real(c ComplexType) FloatType
// The imaginary built-in function returns the imaginary part of the complex
// number c. The return value will be floating point type corresponding to
// the type of c.
func imag(c ComplexType) FloatType
// The close built-in function closes a channel, which must be either
// bidirectional or send-only. It should be executed only by the sender,
// never the receiver, and has the effect of shutting down the channel after
// the last sent value is received. After the last value has been received
// from a closed channel c, any receive from c will succeed without
// blocking, returning the zero value for the channel element. The form
// x, ok := <-c
// will also set ok to false for a closed channel.
func close(c chan<- Type)
// The panic built-in function stops normal execution of the current
// goroutine. When a function F calls panic, normal execution of F stops
// immediately. Any functions whose execution was deferred by F are run in
// the usual way, and then F returns to its caller. To the caller G, the
// invocation of F then behaves like a call to panic, terminating G's
// execution and running any deferred functions. This continues until all
// functions in the executing goroutine have stopped, in reverse order. At
// that point, the program is terminated and the error condition is reported,
// including the value of the argument to panic. This termination sequence
// is called panicking and can be controlled by the built-in function
// recover.
func panic(v interface{})
// The recover built-in function allows a program to manage behavior of a
// panicking goroutine. Executing a call to recover inside a deferred
// function (but not any function called by it) stops the panicking sequence
// by restoring normal execution and retrieves the error value passed to the
// call of panic. If recover is called outside the deferred function it will
// not stop a panicking sequence. In this case, or when the goroutine is not
// panicking, or if the argument supplied to panic was nil, recover returns
// nil. Thus the return value from recover reports whether the goroutine is
// panicking.
func recover() interface{}