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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

Adding code comments in V

Imagine a situation where you have started looking at a new repository that has a lot of code and you want to quickly understand what any particular function or piece of logic does. You can spend some time looking at the logic and you might come up with an assumption of what the piece of code actually does. Often, it is a tedious task for other programmers to spend time reading the code to understand what the code is doing. Most of the time, even the programmer who wrote the code tends to forget what the logic actually does and only recollects after spending time on what they wrote.

Most of the programming languages allow you to add comments to the code. These comments can be single-line comments or multiline comments.

Single-line comments

Single-line comments are used to write short details about the code being commented on that generally fit in a line. A single-line comment starts with a double forward slash, //, followed by the comment that you...

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