Go Design Patterns

Zero-initialization

Zero-initialization is a source of confusion sometimes. They are default values for many types that are assigned even if you don't provide a value for the definition. Following are the zero-initialization for various types:

• The false initialization for bool type.
• Using 0 values for int type.
• Using 0.0 for float type.
• Using "" (empty strings) for string type.
• Using nil keyword for pointers, functions, interfaces, slices, channels and maps.
• Empty struct for structures without fields.
• Zero-initialized struct for structures with fields. The zero value of a structure is defined as the structure that has its fields initialized as zero value too.

Zero-initialization is important when programming in Go because you won't be able to return a ...