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The Go Workshop

You're reading from   The Go Workshop Learn to write clean, efficient code and build high-performance applications with Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838647940
Length 824 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sam Hennessy Sam Hennessy
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Andrew Hayes Andrew Hayes
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Gobin Sougrakpam Gobin Sougrakpam
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Jeremy Leasor Jeremy Leasor
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Delio D'Anna Delio D'Anna
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Dániel Szabó Dániel Szabó
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Variables and Operators FREE CHAPTER 2. Logic and Loops 3. Core Types 4. Complex Types 5. Functions 6. Errors 7. Interfaces 8. Packages 9. Basic Debugging 10. About Time 11. Encoding and Decoding (JSON) 12. Files and Systems 13. SQL and Databases 14. Using the Go HTTP Client 15. HTTP Servers 16. Concurrent Work 17. Using Go Tools 18. Security 19. Special Features Appendix

Introduction

In the previous chapter, we looked at interfaces. We saw how we can use interfaces to describe the behavior of a type. We also discovered that we can pass different types to functions that accept an interface, as long as the type satisfies the interface's method sets. We also saw how we can achieve polymorphism using interfaces.

In this chapter, we will look at how Go organizes its code into packages. We will see how we can hide or expose different Go constructs such as structs, interfaces, functions, and more, using packages. Our programs have been rather small in the number lines of code and in complexity to a certain extent. Most of our programs have been contained in a single code file, often named main.go, and inside a single package named main. Later in this chapter, we will explore the significance of package main, so do not be worried at this juncture if you do not understand it. This will not always be the case when you are working on a development team...

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