[throwaway894345]

I understand your meaning, but that link supports my claims. The package path helps the Go tool infer the actual URL, but it doesn't contain the URL itself (e.g., the actual URL has a scheme/protocol component and potentially a `go-get=1` query string argument which don't exist as part of the path). This is what I meant when I said it "sort-of resembles a URL", but I understand from this conversation how that wording wasn't clear.

[benhoyt]

Fair. Strictly speaking it doesn't even "contain" a URL. But I think in the context of this conversation it acts like a URL -- it allows the Go tooling to fetch code from an arbitrary domain and path on the internet.