Pro Go: The Complete Guide to Programming Reliable and Efficient Software Using Golang

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20. Reading and Writing Data

Adam Freeman¹  

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London, UK

 

In this chapter, I describe two of the most important interfaces defined by the standard library: the Reader and Writer interfaces. These interfaces are used wherever data is read or written, which means that any source or destination for data can be treated in much the same way so that writing data to a file, for example, is just the same as writing data to a network connection. Table 20-1 puts the features described in this chapter in context.

Table 20-1

Putting Readers and Writers in Context

Question	Answer
What are they?	These interfaces define ...