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Learning Go Programming

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Learning Go Programming

Overview of this book

The Go programming language has firmly established itself as a favorite for building complex and scalable system applications. Go offers a direct and practical approach to programming that let programmers write correct and predictable code using concurrency idioms and a full-featured standard library. This is a step-by-step, practical guide full of real world examples to help you get started with Go in no time at all. We start off by understanding the fundamentals of Go, followed by a detailed description of the Go data types, program structures and Maps. After this, you learn how to use Go concurrency idioms to avoid pitfalls and create programs that are exact in expected behavior. Next, you will be familiarized with the tools and libraries that are available in Go for writing and exercising tests, benchmarking, and code coverage. Finally, you will be able to utilize some of the most important features of GO such as, Network Programming and OS integration to build efficient applications. All the concepts are explained in a crisp and concise manner and by the end of this book; you would be able to create highly efficient programs that you can deploy over cloud.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Go Programming
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Switch statements


Go also supports a switch statement similar to that found in other languages such as, C or Java. The switch statement in Go achieves multi-way branching by evaluating values or expressions from case clauses, as shown in the following, abbreviated, source code:

import "fmt" 
 
type Curr struct { 
  Currency string 
  Name     string 
  Country  string 
  Number   int 
} 
 
var currencies = []Curr{ 
  Curr{"DZD", "Algerian Dinar", "Algeria", 12}, 
  Curr{"AUD", "Australian Dollar", "Australia", 36}, 
  Curr{"EUR", "Euro", "Belgium", 978}, 
  Curr{"CLP", "Chilean Peso", "Chile", 152}, 
  Curr{"EUR", "Euro", "Greece", 978}, 
  Curr{"HTG", "Gourde", "Haiti", 332}, 
  ... 
} 
 
func isDollar(curr Curr) bool { 
  var bool result 
  switch curr { 
  default: 
    result = false 
  case Curr{"AUD", "Australian Dollar", "Australia", 36}: 
    result = true ...