hello world syntax error.

[Chris Bruner]

Running under windows, and I'm getting a syntax error. Under the
golang.org paste it works.

package main

import fmt "fmt"

func main() { /// line 6
fmt.Printf("hello, word \n")
}

$ 8g hello.go
hello.go:6: syntax error near "<string>"

Also in the getting started hello world, it had
import "fmt"
but in the examples it has
import "fmt"

(Both give the same syntax error).
$GOOS=windows
$GOARCH=386

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update 2010-12-02

[Andrew Gerrand]

On 4 December 2010 19:21, Chris Bruner <cbr...@quadro.net> wrote:
> Running under windows, and I'm getting a syntax error. Under the golang.org
> paste it works.
>
> package main
>
> import fmt "fmt"
>
>
> func main() {   /// line 6
>        fmt.Printf("hello, word \n")
> }
>
>
> $ 8g hello.go
> hello.go:6: syntax error near "<string>"
>
> Also in the getting started hello world, it had
> import "fmt"
> but in the examples it has
> import "fmt"

These both look the same to me. Are there any non-ascii characters in
the file? If you copy and paste this code, does it work?

package main
import "fmt"
func main() { fmt.Println("Hi") }

Andrew

[Cory Mainwaring]

Yes, that would error out. It would error out quite easily. Copy and
paste your code into notepad. You should see a bunch of A's with
accents, because in Windows, that's what they are.

In UTF-8, the same character is whitespace.

Make sure to use a Windows encoding for Go programs compiled on Windows.