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Getting Started with V Programming

You're reading from   Getting Started with V Programming An end-to-end guide to adopting the V language from basic variables and modules to advanced concurrency

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839213434
Length 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Navule Pavan Kumar Rao Navule Pavan Kumar Rao
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to the V Programming Language
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to V Programming FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Installing V Programming 4. Section 2: Basics of V Programming
5. Chapter 3: Variables, Constants, and Code Comments 6. Chapter 4: Primitive Data Types 7. Chapter 5: Arrays and Maps 8. Chapter 6: Conditionals and Iterative Statements 9. Chapter 7: Functions 10. Chapter 8: Structs 11. Chapter 9: Modules 12. Section 3: Advanced Concepts in V Programming
13. Chapter 10: Concurrency 14. Chapter 11: Channels – An Advanced Concurrency Pattern 15. Chapter 12: Testing 16. Chapter 13: Introduction to JSON and ORM 17. Chapter 14: Building a Microservice 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introducing functions

Functions allow you to logically wrap a set of instructions inside a code block to perform a specific operation. Often, it is necessary to provide them with a name that represents the underlying logic they encompass. Functions might take arguments as an input to perform an operation. Additionally, they might return the result of the operation performed by it. Therefore, functions offer code reusability and code readability.

A function can call another function if required to do so. In some scenarios, a function can call itself to perform a recursive operation.

V facilitates working with functions. A function in V is created using the fn keyword. The typical syntax to create a function in V is shown here:

ACCESS-MODIFIER fn FUNCTION_NAME(ARGUMENT1_NAME ARGUMENT1_DATATYPE, ARGUMENT2_NAME ARGUMENT2_DATATYPE) RETURN_DATATYPE {
    OPERATIONS
}

In the preceding syntax, we can identify two parts of a function:

  • A method signature...
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