Mastering Go - Second Edition

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The first way is similar to using the man(1) command, but for Go functions and packages."

A block of code is set as follows:

package mainimport (    "fmt")func main() {    fmt.Println("This is a sample Go program!")}

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

import ("fmt")func main() {    fmt.Println("This is a sample Go program!")}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ dateSat Oct 21 20:09:20 ...