Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects

Chapter 7. Composite Types

In prior chapters, you may have caught glimpses of the use of composite types such as arrays, slices, maps, and structs in some of the sample code. While early exposure to these types may have left you curious, rest assured in this chapter you will get a chance to learn all about these composite types. This chapter continues what started in Chapter 4, Data Types, with discussions covering the following topics:

• The array type
• The slice type
• The map type
• The struct type

The array type

As you would find in other languages, Go arrays are containers for storing sequenced values of the same type that are numerically indexed. The following code snippet shows samples of variables that are assigned array types:

var val [100]int var ...