Variable Declarations

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Variable Declarations

In Go, you can declare variables using the 'var' keyword with an explicit type, or the short declaration operator ':=' which infers the type automatically.

snippet.go
go
package main
 
import "fmt"
 
func main() {
    var name string = "Gopher"
    age := 10
    fmt.Printf("%s is %d years old", name, age)
}

Breakdown

var name string = "Gopher"

Declares a variable named 'name' of type 'string'.

age := 10

Short declaration that infers 'age' is an integer.

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