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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

Spawning a void function to run concurrently

In this section, we will write a simple function that does not have any return type. The function just prints a message to the console. Then, we will spawn this function so that it runs in a concurrent thread using the go keyword, as follows:

module main
fn greet() {
    println('Hello from other side!')
}
fn main() {
    h := go greet()
    println(typeof(h).name) // thread
}

In the preceding code, the h variable provides access to handle the concurrent task. The h variable is of the thread type in the preceding code. The output of the preceding code could be any of the following outputs:

The following is the first output you may receive:

thread

The following is the second output you may receive:

thread
Hello from other side!

You will see either of these outputs, which appear to be inconsistent outcomes from the program. Notice that the greet() function...

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