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Learning Go Programming

You're reading from   Learning Go Programming An insightful guide to learning the Go programming language

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395438
Length 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. A First Step in Go 2. Go Language Essentials FREE CHAPTER 3. Go Control Flow 4. Data Types 5. Functions in Go 6. Go Packages and Programs 7. Composite Types 8. Methods, Interfaces, and Objects 9. Concurrency 10. Data IO in Go 11. Writing Networked Services 12. Code Testing

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...
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