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Go Systems Programming
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Go Systems Programming

by Mihalis Tsoukalos
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
466 pages
9h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Advanced Go Features

In the previous chapter, you learned how to compile Go code, how to get input from the user and print the output on the screen, how to create your own Go functions, the data structures that Go supports, and how to process command-line arguments.

This chapter will discuss many fascinating things, so you better prepare yourselves for lots of interesting and practical Go code that will help you perform many different yet really important tasks, starting with error handling and ending with how to avoid some common Go mistakes. If you are familiar with Go, you can skip what you already know, but please do not skip the proposed exercises.

So, this chapter will talk about some advanced Go features, including:

  • Error handling ...
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ISBN: 9781787125643