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_6

6. Flow Control

Adam Freeman¹  

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London, UK

 

In this chapter, I describe the Go features for controlling the flow of execution. Go supports keywords that are common in other programming languages, such as if, for, switch, etc., but each has some unusual and innovative features. Table 6-1 puts the Go flow control features in context.

Table 6-1

Putting Flow Control in Context

Question	Answer
What is it?	Flow control allows a programmer to selectively execute statements.
Why is it useful?	Without flow control, an application executes a series of code statements in sequence and then exits. Flow control allows ...