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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

Understanding function features

In the previous sections, we learned about various types of functions and discovered how to write basic functions, anonymous functions, and higher-order functions. As a V programmer, it is important to know the various features of functions that will enable you to work with them smoothly while programming. The following is a list of the features of functions in V:

  • Functions can return values or simply perform operations.
  • Functions can take zero or more input arguments.
  • Functions can return multiple values.
  • Functions can call other accessible functions.
  • Functions allow only arrays, interfaces, maps, pointers, and structs as mutable arguments.
  • Function declarations in script mode should come before all script statements.
  • Functions do not allow access to module variables or global variables.
  • Functions do not allow default or optional arguments.
  • Functions can have optional return types.
  • Functions are private by...
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