The Go Programming Language

3.6 Constants

Constants are expressions whose value is known to the compiler and whose evaluation is guaranteed to occur at compile time, not at run time. The underlying type of every constant is a basic type: boolean, string, or number.

A const declaration defines named values that look syntactically like variables but whose value is constant, which prevents accidental (or nefarious) changes during program execution. For instance, a constant is more appropriate than a variable for a mathematical constant like pi, since its value won’t change:

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const pi = 3.14159 // approximately; math.Pi is a better approximation

As with variables, a sequence of constants can appear in one declaration; this would be appropriate ...