map access.

<h3id="language_changes">

Will you accept my language change?</h3>

People often suggest improvements to the language—the

<ahref="http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts">mailing list</a>

contains a rich history of such discussions—but very few of these changes have

been accepted.

Although Go is an open source project, the language and libraries are protected

by a<ahref="/doc/go1compat.html">compatibility promise</a> that prevents

changes that break existing programs.

If your proposal violates the Go 1 specification we cannot even entertain the

idea, regardless of its merit.

A future major release of Go may be incompatible with Go 1, but we're not ready

to start talking about what that might be.

Even if your proposal is compatible with the Go 1 spec, it may be

not be in the spirit of Go's design goals.

The article<i><ahref="http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article">Go

at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering</a></i>

explains Go's origins and the motivation behind its design.

<h2id="types">Types</h2>

<h3id="Is_Go_an_object-oriented_language">