mmcgrana/gobyexample — pull request #27 by kr (2012-11-05 03:13:03+00:00)
Title: there's more to say about constants

This was a small source of confusion for me when I was getting started.

Go constants have their own type system, distinct from the language's
primary type system, that exists only at compile time.

I took a stab at explaining just enough to un-confuse people. (Also,
these days the compiler error messages around constants are better,
so this is hopefully less of a problem.)