On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Rob Thornton <rthornton...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is the purpose of the unary '+' operator? In both C and Go they are > syntactically correct but neither generate instructions to modify the > expression.
This is not an entirely serious answer, but the unary plus operator permits columns of numbers to look nicer after gofmt. var a = []int{ +1, -2, +3, -4, } The same is true of leading zeroes, which also do not affect the value of the expression. Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.