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I thought I had a piece of dust on my screen, but as I scrolled the dust scrolled: what do these 0xB7 characters do in the identifiers? Are they just "name mang

• jchw 4y ago
  It's name mangling yeah. I believe Go uses those characters in place of where it might use dots.
• totallygamerjet 4y ago
  "In Go object files and binaries, the full name of a symbol is the package path followed by a period and the symbol name: fmt.Printf or math/rand.Int. Because the assembler's parser treats period and slash as punctuation, those strings cannot be used directly as identifier names. Instead, the assembler allows the middle dot character U+00B7 and the division slash U+2215 in identifiers and rewrites them to plain period and slash."[0] [0] - https://go.dev/doc/asm https://go.dev/doc/asm
  • saagarjha 4y ago
    This is the most awful thing I’ve encountered all day.
  • phanimahesh 4y ago
    That's creative. I'm not sure if I should call it abuse, but I'm leaning heavily in favor.