[fred256]

From the language specification:

> Numeric constants represent exact values of arbitrary precision and do not overflow.

[friseurtermin]

Ok I think I'm not understanding this correctly then. Why does this return an error?

    package main

    import (
        "fmt"
    )
    
    const tst = 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
    
    func main() {
        fmt.Println("%v", tst)
    }

Error: ./prog.go:16:17: constant 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 overflows int

See: https://play.golang.org/p/47l5qAsXD5r

[howeyc]

https://golang.org/ref/spec#Constants

> An untyped constant has a default type which is the type to which the constant is implicitly converted in contexts where a typed value is required.

The default type for a number (integer) is int. If you were to add a period in that long string of zeros, the default for floating-point is float64.