Re: [go-nuts] go programming book

[Michael Jones]

works for me...

http://play.golang.org/p/rIfwqK9hkS

from: http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321774637/samplepages/0321774639.pdf

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:23 PM, <paleop...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am studying Programming in Go  Very first example on page 14 will not run

go run hello.go

package : 

hello.go:3:8: expected 'STRING', found '{'

hello.go:4:6: expected ';', found 'STRING' "fmt"

I can't find an explanation for these error messages or what to do about them

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[Dave Cheney]

Possibly the (1) from the pdf leaked into the source, assuming you
copied and pasted from the pdf.

[Herman Junge]

Maybe you did

import {
// your imports
}

with a curly brace, instead of:

import (
// your imports
)

with parenthesis.

hj

[peterGo]

It's usually because someone copied and pasted on Windows. Go expects UTF-8 encoded source files.

What is output from:

    go version

Did you follow the instructions for downloading the source files for the book?

Programming in Go
http://www.qtrac.eu/gobook.html

Downloads

The source code is available in two formats, gobook-1.0.tar.gz[http://www.qtrac.eu/gobook-1.0.tar.gz] (70K suitable for any platform), and gobook-1.0.zip[http://www.qtrac.eu/gobook-1.0.zip] (170K Windows line endings) [updated 2013-10-09] and have been tested with Go 1.0, Go 1.1, and Go 1.2—they are subject to the very liberal Apache 2.0 license. There is also an Errata [updated 2013-06-28].

Peter