Go Design Patterns

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "we need a main function to use it as libraries cannot be converted to executable files directly."

A block of code is set as follows:

    package main

    func main() {
      ten := 10
      if ten == 20 {
        println("This shouldn't be printed as 10 isn't equal to 20")
      } else {
        println("Ten is not equals to 20")
      }
    }

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are ...