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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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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

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

Importing package


At this point, you should have a good understanding of what a package is, what it does, and how to create one. Now, let us see how to use a package to import and reuse its members. As you will find in several other languages, the keyword import is used to import source code elements from an external package. It allows the importing source to access exported elements found in the imported package (see the Package scope and visibility section earlier in the chapter). The general format for the import clause is as follows:

import [package name identifier] "<import path>"

Notice that the import path must be enclosed within double quotes. The import statement also supports an optional package identifier that can be used to explicitly name the imported package (discussed later). The import statement can also be written as an import block, as shown in the following format. This is useful where there are two or more import packages listed:

import (

[package name identifier]...

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