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authorRob Pike <r@golang.org>2009-10-13 22:10:16 -0700
committerRob Pike <r@golang.org>2009-10-13 22:10:16 -0700
commitf340baa9492812622efdc18d7e84d9a1c09ef13b (patch)
tree57684f567741737ea7dd5c6c2f9b2275f8c7d108
parent8e2b8d798c930bb143cedf32c51b04ffe3db71d7 (diff)
downloadgolang-f340baa9492812622efdc18d7e84d9a1c09ef13b.tar.gz
bye-bye to old makehtml.
go can do the job just fine. R=rsc DELTA=290 (209 added, 13 deleted, 68 changed) OCL=35699 CL=35699
-rw-r--r--doc/Makefile11
-rw-r--r--doc/go_tutorial.head3
-rw-r--r--doc/go_tutorial.html63
-rw-r--r--doc/go_tutorial.txt18
-rw-r--r--doc/htmlgen.go192
-rwxr-xr-xdoc/makehtml31
6 files changed, 277 insertions, 41 deletions
diff --git a/doc/Makefile b/doc/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0abb881b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+# license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+include $(GOROOT)/src/Make.$(GOARCH)
+
+TARG=htmlgen
+GOFILES=\
+ htmlgen.go\
+
+include $(GOROOT)/src/Make.cmd
diff --git a/doc/go_tutorial.head b/doc/go_tutorial.head
deleted file mode 100644
index a15e53683..000000000
--- a/doc/go_tutorial.head
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-<!-- Let's Go -->
-
-<h2>Introduction</h2>
diff --git a/doc/go_tutorial.html b/doc/go_tutorial.html
index f966ef936..27710ed26 100644
--- a/doc/go_tutorial.html
+++ b/doc/go_tutorial.html
@@ -1,15 +1,14 @@
<!-- Let's Go -->
-
<h2>Introduction</h2>
<p>
This document is a tutorial introduction to the basics of the Go systems programming
language, intended for programmers familiar with C or C++. It is not a comprehensive
guide to the language; at the moment the document closest to that is the
-<a href=/doc/go_spec.html>language specification.</a>
+<a href='/doc/go_spec.html'>language specification.</a>
<p>
The presentation proceeds through a series of modest programs to illustrate
key features of the language. All the programs work (at time of writing) and are
-checked into the repository in the directory <a href=/doc/progs><code>/doc/progs</code></a>.
+checked into the repository in the directory <a href='/doc/progs'><code>/doc/progs/</code></a>.
<p>
Program snippets are annotated with the line number in the original file; for
cleanliness, blank lines remain blank.
@@ -45,8 +44,8 @@ The comment convention is the same as in C++:
<pre>
/* ... */
// ...
-
</pre>
+<p>
Later we'll have much more to say about printing.
<p>
<h2>Echo</h2>
@@ -94,8 +93,8 @@ But it's not necessary to do so; we could have said
<pre>
const Space = " "
const Newline = "\n"
-
</pre>
+<p>
Semicolons aren't needed here; in fact, semicolons are unnecessary after any
top-level declaration, even though they are needed as separators <i>within</i>
a parenthesized list of declarations.
@@ -128,8 +127,8 @@ The declaration statement has the form
<p>
<pre>
var s string = "";
-
</pre>
+<p>
This is the <code>var</code> keyword, followed by the name of the variable, followed by
its type, followed by an equals sign and an initial value for the variable.
<p>
@@ -139,14 +138,14 @@ We could write
<p>
<pre>
var s = "";
-
</pre>
+<p>
or we could go even shorter and write the idiom
<p>
<pre>
s := "";
-
</pre>
+<p>
The <code>:=</code> operator is used a lot in Go to represent an initializing declaration.
(For those who know Sawzall, its <code>:=</code> construct is the same, but notice
that Go has no colon after the name in a full <code>var</code> declaration.
@@ -177,8 +176,8 @@ It's defined that way. Falling off the end of <code>main.main</code> means
<p>
<pre>
os.Exit(1)
-
</pre>
+<p>
The <code>os</code> package contains other essentials for getting
started; for instance, <code>os.Args</code> is an array used by the
<code>flag</code> package to access the command-line arguments.
@@ -213,8 +212,8 @@ a <code>string</code> value:
<pre>
s[0] = 'x';
(*p)[1] = 'y';
-
</pre>
+<p>
In C++ terms, Go strings are a bit like <code>const strings</code>, while pointers
to strings are analogous to <code>const string</code> references.
<p>
@@ -225,8 +224,8 @@ Arrays are declared like this:
<p>
<pre>
var array_of_int [10]int;
-
</pre>
+<p>
Arrays, like strings, are values, but they are mutable. This differs
from C, in which <code>array_of_int</code> would be usable as a pointer to <code>int</code>.
In Go, since arrays are values, it's meaningful (and useful) to talk
@@ -286,21 +285,21 @@ elements for you, use <code>...</code> as the array size:
<p>
<pre>
s := sum(&amp;[...]int{1,2,3});
-
</pre>
+<p>
In practice, though, unless you're meticulous about storage layout within a
data structure, a slice itself - using empty brackets and no <code>&</code> - is all you need:
<p>
<pre>
s := sum([]int{1,2,3});
-
</pre>
+<p>
There are also maps, which you can initialize like this:
<p>
<pre>
m := map[string] int {"one":1 , "two":2}
-
</pre>
+<p>
The built-in function <code>len()</code>, which returns number of elements,
makes its first appearance in <code>sum</code>. It works on strings, arrays,
slices, and maps.
@@ -317,14 +316,14 @@ returns a pointer to the allocated storage.
<pre>
type T struct { a, b int }
var t *T = new(T);
-
</pre>
+<p>
or the more idiomatic
<p>
<pre>
t := new(T);
-
</pre>
+<p>
Some types - maps, slices, and channels (see below) - have reference semantics.
If you're holding a slice or a map and you modify its contents, other variables
referencing the same underlying data will see the modification. For these three
@@ -332,15 +331,15 @@ types you want to use the built-in function <code>make()</code>:
<p>
<pre>
m := make(map[string] int);
-
</pre>
+<p>
This statement initializes a new map ready to store entries.
If you just declare the map, as in
<p>
<pre>
var m map[string] int;
-
</pre>
+<p>
it creates a <code>nil</code> reference that cannot hold anything. To use the map,
you must first initialize the reference using <code>make()</code> or by assignment to an
existing map.
@@ -360,8 +359,8 @@ too little precision to represent the value.
<p>
<pre>
const hard_eight = (1 &lt;&lt; 100) &gt;&gt; 97 // legal
-
</pre>
+<p>
There are nuances that deserve redirection to the legalese of the
language specification but here are some illustrative examples:
<p>
@@ -373,8 +372,8 @@ language specification but here are some illustrative examples:
x := 1.5 // a float
i3div2 := 3/2 // integer division - result is 1
f3div2 := 3./2. // floating point division - result is 1.5
-
</pre>
+<p>
Conversions only work for simple cases such as converting <code>ints</code> of one
sign or size to another, and between <code>ints</code> and <code>floats</code>, plus a few other
simple cases. There are no automatic numeric conversions of any kind in Go,
@@ -446,8 +445,8 @@ object. We could write
n.fd = fd;
n.name = name;
return n
-
</pre>
+<p>
but for simple structures like <code>File</code> it's easier to return the address of a nonce
composite literal, as is done here on line 21.
<p>
@@ -585,8 +584,8 @@ Finally we can run the program:
hello, world
can't open file; err=No such file or directory
%
-
</pre>
+<p>
<h2>Rotting cats</h2>
<p>
Building on the <code>file</code> package, here's a simple version of the Unix utility <code>cat(1)</code>,
@@ -864,8 +863,8 @@ Within the <code>fmt</code> package, <code>Printf</code> is declared with this s
<p>
<pre>
Printf(format string, v ...) (n int, errno os.Error)
-
</pre>
+<p>
That <code>...</code> represents the variadic argument list that in C would
be handled using the <code>stdarg.h</code> macros, but in Go is passed using
an empty interface variable (<code>interface {}</code>) that is then unpacked
@@ -888,8 +887,8 @@ prints
<p>
<pre>
18446744073709551615 -1
-
</pre>
+<p>
In fact, if you're lazy the format <code>%v</code> will print, in a simple
appropriate style, any value, even an array or structure. The output of
<p>
@@ -904,8 +903,8 @@ is
<p>
<pre>
18446744073709551615 {77 Sunset Strip} [1 2 3 4]
-
</pre>
+<p>
You can drop the formatting altogether if you use <code>Print</code> or <code>Println</code>
instead of <code>Printf</code>. Those routines do fully automatic formatting.
The <code>Print</code> function just prints its elements out using the equivalent
@@ -946,8 +945,8 @@ default formatter for that type will use it and produce the output
<p>
<pre>
77 Sunset Strip
-
</pre>
+<p>
Observe that the <code>String()</code> method calls <code>Sprint</code> (the obvious Go
variant that returns a string) to do its formatting; special formatters
can use the <code>fmt</code> library recursively.
@@ -970,15 +969,17 @@ Schematically, given a value <code>v</code>, it does this:
type Stringer interface {
String() string
}
-
+</pre>
+<p>
+<pre>
s, ok := v.(Stringer); // Test whether v implements "String()"
if ok {
result = s.String()
} else {
result = default_output(v)
}
-
</pre>
+<p>
The code uses a ``type assertion'' (<code>v.(Stringer)</code>) to test if the value stored in
<code>v</code> satisfies the <code>Stringer</code> interface; if it does, <code>s</code>
will become an interface variable implementing the method and <code>ok</code> will
@@ -1000,8 +1001,8 @@ interface type defined in the <code>io</code> library:
type Writer interface {
Write(p []byte) (n int, err os.Error);
}
-
</pre>
+<p>
(This interface is another conventional name, this time for <code>Write</code>; there are also
<code>io.Reader</code>, <code>io.ReadWriter</code>, and so on.)
Thus you can call <code>Fprintf</code> on any type that implements a standard <code>Write()</code>
@@ -1081,8 +1082,8 @@ computation but in the same address space:
<p>
<pre>
go sum(huge_array); // calculate sum in the background
-
</pre>
+<p>
If you want to know when the calculation is done, pass a channel
on which it can report back:
<p>
@@ -1091,8 +1092,8 @@ on which it can report back:
go sum(huge_array, ch);
// ... do something else for a while
result := &lt;-ch; // wait for, and retrieve, result
-
</pre>
+<p>
Back to our prime sieve. Here's how the sieve pipeline is stitched
together:
<p>
diff --git a/doc/go_tutorial.txt b/doc/go_tutorial.txt
index 15e29281b..dd7cd9fd8 100644
--- a/doc/go_tutorial.txt
+++ b/doc/go_tutorial.txt
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
-Let's Go
+<!-- Let's Go -->
+Introduction
----
This document is a tutorial introduction to the basics of the Go systems programming
language, intended for programmers familiar with C or C++. It is not a comprehensive
guide to the language; at the moment the document closest to that is the
-<a href=/doc/go_spec.html>language specification.</a>
+<a href='/doc/go_spec.html'>language specification.</a>
The presentation proceeds through a series of modest programs to illustrate
key features of the language. All the programs work (at time of writing) and are
-checked into the repository in the directory <a href=/doc/progs>"/doc/progs"</a>.
+checked into the repository in the directory <a href='/doc/progs'>"/doc/progs/"</a>.
Program snippets are annotated with the line number in the original file; for
cleanliness, blank lines remain blank.
@@ -215,7 +216,7 @@ pointer to "sum()" by (automatically) promoting it to a slice.
If you are creating a regular array but want the compiler to count the
elements for you, use "..." as the array size:
- s := sum(&[...]int{1,2,3});
+ s := sum(&amp;[...]int{1,2,3});
In practice, though, unless you're meticulous about storage layout within a
data structure, a slice itself - using empty brackets and no "&" - is all you need:
@@ -277,7 +278,7 @@ constants are evaluated as large-precision values that
can overflow only when they are assigned to an integer variable with
too little precision to represent the value.
- const hard_eight = (1 << 100) >> 97 // legal
+ const hard_eight = (1 &lt;&lt; 100) &gt;&gt; 97 // legal
There are nuances that deserve redirection to the legalese of the
language specification but here are some illustrative examples:
@@ -542,7 +543,7 @@ to implement the three methods for that type, like this:
Printing
----
+----
The examples of formatted printing so far have been modest. In this section
we'll talk about how formatted I/O can be done well in Go.
@@ -721,7 +722,7 @@ on which it can report back:
ch := make(chan int);
go sum(huge_array, ch);
// ... do something else for a while
- result := <-ch; // wait for, and retrieve, result
+ result := &lt;-ch; // wait for, and retrieve, result
Back to our prime sieve. Here's how the sieve pipeline is stitched
together:
@@ -824,3 +825,6 @@ at the end of main:
There's a lot more to Go programming and concurrent programming in general but this
quick tour should give you some of the basics.
+</table>
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/doc/htmlgen.go b/doc/htmlgen.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8d44fc078
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/htmlgen.go
@@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
+// Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// Process plain text into HTML.
+// - h2's are made from lines followed by a line "----\n"
+// - tab-indented blocks become <pre> blocks
+// - blank lines become <p> marks
+// - "quoted strings" become <code>quoted strings</code>
+
+package main
+
+import (
+ "bufio";
+ "bytes";
+ "log";
+ "os";
+ "strings";
+)
+
+var (
+ lines = make([][]byte, 0, 10000); // assume big enough
+ linebuf = make([]byte, 10000); // assume big enough
+
+ empty = strings.Bytes("");
+ newline = strings.Bytes("\n");
+ tab = strings.Bytes("\t");
+ quote = strings.Bytes(`"`);
+
+ sectionMarker = strings.Bytes("----\n");
+ preStart = strings.Bytes("<pre>");
+ preEnd = strings.Bytes("</pre>\n");
+ pp = strings.Bytes("<p>\n");
+);
+
+func main() {
+ read();
+ headings();
+ paragraphs();
+ coalesce(preStart, foldPre);
+ coalesce(tab, foldTabs);
+ quotes();
+ write();
+}
+
+func read() {
+ b := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin);
+ for {
+ line, err := b.ReadBytes('\n');
+ if err == os.EOF {
+ break;
+ }
+ if err != nil {
+ log.Exit(err)
+ }
+ n := len(lines);
+ lines = lines[0:n+1];
+ lines[n] = line;
+ }
+}
+
+func write() {
+ b := bufio.NewWriter(os.Stdout);
+ for _, line := range lines {
+ b.Write(expandTabs(line));
+ }
+ b.Flush();
+}
+
+// each time prefix is found on a line, call fold and replace
+// line with return value from fold.
+func coalesce(prefix []byte, fold func(i int) (n int, line []byte)) {
+ j := 0; // output line number; goes up by one each loop
+ for i := 0; i < len(lines); {
+ if bytes.HasPrefix(lines[i], prefix) {
+ nlines, block := fold(i);
+ lines[j] = block;
+ i += nlines;
+ } else {
+ lines[j] = lines[i];
+ i++;
+ }
+ j++;
+ }
+ lines = lines[0:j];
+}
+
+// return the <pre> block as a single slice
+func foldPre(i int) (n int, line []byte) {
+ buf := new(bytes.Buffer);
+ for i < len(lines) {
+ buf.Write(lines[i]);
+ n++;
+ if bytes.Equal(lines[i], preEnd) {
+ break
+ }
+ i++;
+ }
+ return n, buf.Bytes();
+}
+
+// return the tab-indented block as a single <pre>-bounded slice
+func foldTabs(i int) (n int, line []byte) {
+ buf := new(bytes.Buffer);
+ buf.WriteString("<pre>\n");
+ for i < len(lines) {
+ if !bytes.HasPrefix(lines[i], tab) {
+ break;
+ }
+ buf.Write(lines[i]);
+ n++;
+ i++;
+ }
+ buf.WriteString("</pre>\n");
+ return n, buf.Bytes();
+}
+
+func headings() {
+ b := bufio.NewWriter(os.Stdout);
+ for i, l := range lines {
+ if i > 0 && bytes.Equal(l, sectionMarker) {
+ lines[i-1] = strings.Bytes("<h2>" + string(trim(lines[i-1])) + "</h2>\n");
+ lines[i] = empty;
+ }
+ }
+ b.Flush();
+}
+
+func paragraphs() {
+ for i, l := range lines {
+ if bytes.Equal(l, newline) {
+ lines[i] = pp;
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+func quotes() {
+ for i, l := range lines {
+ lines[i] = codeQuotes(l);
+ }
+}
+
+func codeQuotes(l []byte) []byte {
+ if bytes.HasPrefix(l, preStart) {
+ return l
+ }
+ n := bytes.Index(l, quote);
+ if n < 0 {
+ return l
+ }
+ buf := new(bytes.Buffer);
+ inQuote := false;
+ for _, c := range l {
+ if c == '"' {
+ if inQuote {
+ buf.WriteString("</code>")
+ } else {
+ buf.WriteString("<code>")
+ }
+ inQuote = !inQuote
+ } else {
+ buf.WriteByte(c)
+ }
+ }
+ return buf.Bytes();
+}
+
+// drop trailing newline
+func trim(l []byte) []byte {
+ n := len(l);
+ if n > 0 && l[n-1] == '\n' {
+ return l[0:n-1]
+ }
+ return l
+}
+
+// expand tabs to 4 spaces. don't worry about columns.
+func expandTabs(l []byte) []byte {
+ j := 0; // position in linebuf.
+ for _, c := range l {
+ if c == '\t' {
+ for k := 0; k < 4; k++ {
+ linebuf[j] = ' ';
+ j++;
+ }
+ } else {
+ linebuf[j] = c;
+ j++;
+ }
+ }
+ return linebuf[0:j];
+}
diff --git a/doc/makehtml b/doc/makehtml
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..c9ac0c8e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/makehtml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+# license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+set -e
+
+TXT=${1:-go_tutorial.txt} # input file
+HTML=$(basename $TXT .txt).html # output file (basename)
+TMP=TEMP.txt # input to htmlgen
+
+if ! test -w $HTML
+then
+ echo 1>&2 makehtml: cannot open $HTML for write
+ exit 1
+fi
+
+if grep -q '^--PROG' $TXT
+then
+ echo >&2 makehtml: processing PROG sections
+ <$TXT >$TMP awk '
+ /^--PROG/ { system("sh ./prog.sh "$2" "$3" "$4" "); getline }
+ /^/ {print}
+ '
+else
+ cp $TXT $TMP
+fi
+
+make htmlgen && ./htmlgen < $TMP > $HTML
+
+rm -f $TMP