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Should have more detail about named return values.
There was not a section about named return values, and it feels like it is a valuable and important enough thing to learn early on. If nothing else, when looking at someone else's code this may be a point of confusion.
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learnFlowControl() // Back in the flow.
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learnFlowControl() // Back in the flow.
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// It is possible, unlike in many other languages for functions on go
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// to have named return values.
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// We just have to assign a name to the type being returned in the function
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// declaration line. This allows us to easily return from multiple points
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// in a function as well as to only use the return keyword, without anything further.
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func learnNamedReturns(x, y int) (z int) {
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z = x * y
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return // z is implicit here, because we named it earlier.
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}
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// Go is fully garbage collected. It has pointers but no pointer arithmetic.
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// Go is fully garbage collected. It has pointers but no pointer arithmetic.
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// You can make a mistake with a nil pointer, but not by incrementing a pointer.
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// You can make a mistake with a nil pointer, but not by incrementing a pointer.
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func learnMemory() (p, q *int) {
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func learnMemory() (p, q *int) {
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