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authorRobert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>2014-05-20 17:46:08 -0700
committerRobert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>2014-05-20 17:46:08 -0700
commitc00043b5d8bd53130bddb5ef1e88643dccc4586f (patch)
treefb56262b644d2670b71dbbb61c6bc4dbb6c9a36f /doc
parentcb6cb42ede03d6a35fbe6603f22e8855910f9f51 (diff)
downloadgo1.3beta2.tar.xz
spec: specify order of init() callsgo1.3beta2
The spec did not specify the order in which init() functions are called. Specify that they are called in source order since we have now also specified the initialization order of independent variables. While technically a language change, no existing code could have relied on this, so this should not break anything. Per suggestion from rsc. LGTM=r, iant R=rsc, iant, r, ken CC=golang-codereviews https://golang.org/cl/98420046
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@@ -6008,7 +6008,8 @@ in a program.
<p>
A package with no imports is initialized by assigning initial values
to all its package-level variables followed by calling all <code>init</code>
-functions in unspecified order.
+functions in the order they appear in the source, possibly in multiple files,
+as presented to the compiler.
If a package has imports, the imported packages are initialized
before initializing the package itself. If multiple packages import
a package, the imported package will be initialized only once.