Mastering Go - Second Edition

Creating a goroutine

In this subsection, you will learn two ways of creating goroutines. The first one is by using regular functions, while the second method is by using anonymous functions – these two ways are equivalent.

The name of the program covered in this section is simple.go, and it is presented in three parts.

The first part of simple.go is the following Go code:

package main 
 
import ( 
    "fmt" 
    "time" 
) 
 
func function() { 
    for i := 0; i < 10; i++ { 
        fmt.Print(i) 
    } 
} 

Apart from the import block, the preceding code defines a function named function() that will be used in a short while.

The function name function() is nothing special – you can give it any valid function name you want.

The second part of simple.go is as follows:

func main() ...