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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 structs

Structs in V allow you to define composite objects. They facilitate you to create complex data structures, allowing its fields to have different data types. The fields of the struct can be primitive data types, enums, or could be another struct.

We will start understanding structs by observing their basic syntax. Later, we will learn how to define a struct based on this syntax, initialize a struct with values assigned to its fields, and access those fields. We will then discuss what heap structs are and illustrate this with detailed code examples.

Defining a struct

You can define a struct in V by using the struct keyword followed by the name of the struct. The basic syntax of a struct in V is of the form shown here:

struct STRUCTNAME {
        FIELDNAME1 DATATYPE
        FIELDNAME2 DATATYPE
}

For example, let's define a Note struct to understand how a real-world...

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