The Go Programming Language
Specification
Expressions
An expression specifies the computation of a value by applying
operators and functions to operands.
Operands
Operands denote the elementary values in an expression. An operand may
be a literal, a (possibly qualified) non-blank identifier denoting a
constant, variable, or function, a method expression yielding a
function, or a parenthesized expression.
Order of evaluation
At package level, initialization dependencies determine the evaluation
order of individual initialization expressions in variable
declarations. Otherwise, when evaluating the operands of an
expression, assignment, or return statement, all function calls,
method calls, and communication operations are evaluated in lexical
left-to-right order.
Calls
Given an expression f of function type F,
f(a1, a2, … an)
calls f with arguments a1, a2, … an. Except for one special case,
arguments must be single-valued expressions assignable to the
parameter types of F and are evaluated before the function is called.
The type of the expression is the result type of F. A method
invocation is similar but the method itself is specified as a selector
upon a value of the receiver type for the method.
Logical operators
Logical operators apply to boolean values and yield a result of the
same type as the operands. The right operand is evaluated
conditionally.
&& conditional AND p && q is "if p then q else false"
|| conditional OR p || q is "if p then true else q"
! NOT !p is "not p"
The behavior of your code is defined in The Go Programming Language Specification.