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C # tutorial
A Go file consists of the following parts
A Go file consists of the following parts:
Look at the following code, to understand it better:
package main
import ("fmt")
func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello World!")
}
Example explained
package keyword. In this example, the program belongs to the
main package.
import ("fmt") lets us import files included in
the fmt package.
func main() {} is a function. Any code inside its curly brackets {} will be executed.
fmt.Println() is a function made available from the fmt package. It is used to output/print text. In our example it will output "Hello World!".
Note: In Go, any executable code belongs to the
main
package.
fmt.Println("Hello World!") is a statement.
In Go, statements are separated by ending a line (hitting the Enter key) or by
a semicolon ";".
Hitting the Enter key adds ";" to the end of the line implicitly (does not show up in the source code).
The left curly bracket { cannot come at the start of a line.
Run the following code and see what happens:
package main
import ("fmt")
func main()
{
fmt.Println("Hello World!")
}
You can write more compact code, like shown below (this is not recommended because it makes the code more difficult to read):
package main; import ("fmt"); func main() { fmt.Println("Hello World!");}