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

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A. FreemanPro Gohttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7355-5_4

4. Basic Types, Values, and Pointers

Adam Freeman¹  

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London, UK

 

In this chapter, I begin to describe the Go language, focusing on the basic data types before moving on to how they are used to create constants and variables. I also introduce the Go support for pointers. Pointers can be a source of confusion, especially if you are coming to Go from languages such as Java or C#, and I describe how Go pointers work, demonstrate why they can be useful, and explain why they are not to be feared.

The features provided by any programming language are intended to be used together, which makes it difficult ...