Hello World语法错误

Question

When I try to compile the example from the front page of the go language website with the 6g compiler, I get this error:

hello.go:5: syntax error near "<string>"

I search on Google reveals that a few people have experienced this, but I have found no solution. The answer always seems to be: "It's works for me, you must do something wrong".

I've found a description of the problem that dates back 5 months, so I suspect it's not a problem with the particular build of go that I'm using. Besides, I've tried pulling a newer version, and the problem persists.

The source code in question:

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Hello, 世界")
 }

Btw, I'm saving the source code as UTF-8 with LFs for newlines. It shouldn't be a text encoding issue. I've also tried with different strings not containing "exotic" characters

Answer 1

Try "which 6g". You might be picking up an old build. At least that was my case. I had an old 2009 build in my path. After fixing the environment it worked.