 provide a way to append a string to a <code>[]byte</code>,
which is another common case.
</p>

<pre><!--{{code "/doc/progs/go1.go" `/greeting := ..byte/` `/append.*hello/`}}
-->    greeting := []byte{}
    greeting = append(greeting, []byte(&#34;hello &#34;)...)</pre>

<p>
By analogy with the similar property of <code>copy</code>, Go 1
permits a string to be appended (byte-wise) directly to a byte
slice, reducing the friction between strings and byte slices.
The conversion is no longer necessary:
</p>

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