How does the Go1 compiler work?

Question

I\'ve been dabbling with Go for about a month for a school project and I noticed the go/ast, go/token, go/parser, etc. packages in the src/pkg/go folder. However, the gc com

Answer 1

does this tool depend on the packages I referenced above?

The 'go' tool does depend on those packages

if I added a new token to /go/token/token.go, would it be recognized by the new go compiler?

No.