Commit 2ac43d5b authored by griesemer's avatar griesemer Committed by Robert Griesemer

doc: minor clarification regarding the sharing of underlying arrays

The last sentence in the section on slice expressions could be read
as if it might apply to strings. Changed the sentence a bit to
emphasize its applicability to slices only. See also the issue for
more background.

Fixes #19220.

Change-Id: I8551f34230e4ed93f951e7b871cc81f54a5874a9
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/59890Reviewed-by: default avatarRob Pike <r@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarIan Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
parent 64607dbd
<!--{
"Title": "The Go Programming Language Specification",
"Subtitle": "Version of August 25, 2017",
"Subtitle": "Version of August 30, 2017",
"Path": "/ref/spec"
}-->
......@@ -3147,8 +3147,8 @@ and the result of the slice operation is a slice with the same element type as t
<p>
If the sliced operand of a valid slice expression is a <code>nil</code> slice, the result
is a <code>nil</code> slice. Otherwise, the result shares its underlying array with the
operand.
is a <code>nil</code> slice. Otherwise, if the result is a slice, it shares its underlying
array with the operand.
</p>
<h4>Full slice expressions</h4>
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