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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

The for statements

As a language related to the C-family, Go also supports for loop style control structures. However, as you may have come to expect by now, Go's for statements work interestingly differently and simply. The for statement in Go supports four distinct idioms, as summarized in the following table:

For Statement

Usage

For condition

Used to semantically replace while and do...while loops:

for x < 10 {

...

}

Infinite loop

The conditional expression may be omitted to create an infinite loop:

for {
...
}

Traditional

This is the traditional form of the C-family for loop with the initializer, test, and update clauses:

for x:=0; x < 10; x++ {
...
}

For range

Used to iterate over an expression representing a collection of items stored in an array, string (array of rune), slice, map, and channel:

for i, val := range values {
...
}

Notice, as with all other control statements in Go, the for statements do not use parentheses around their expressions. All statements...

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