A previous discussion of this was quite long (89 posts) - maybe start
there: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/ajXzEM6lqJI/wbTPh2TmAwAJ
On Thursday, August 2, 2018 at 1:21:15 PM UTC-4, Andrey Tcherepanov wrote:
>
> The following code does not compile. What was *rationale* behind slices
> being excluded from being nicely comparable by == like anything else ?
>
> package main
>
> import (
> "fmt"
> )
>
> func main() {
> var a, b []byte
>
> fmt.Println("equals?", a == b)
> }
>
> Slices are _excluded_ from deep comparison by stating "Other values -
> numbers, bools, strings, and channels - are deeply equal if they are equal
> using Go's == operator." (from documentation of reflect.DeepEqual()
> <http://golang.org/pkg/reflect/#DeepEqual> ).
>
>
> Sorry if it is FAQ of some sort, but I seems cannot find an answer to
> "why".
>
> Thank you very much,
> Andrey
>
>
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