Go Concepts - Operators

External

• Go Specification - Operators: https://golang.org/ref/spec#Operators

Internal

• Go Lexical Structure

+

Addition or concatenation.

Applies to:

• Go strings

-

Subtraction

*

Multiplication

/

Division

%

Remainder

=

The assignment operator.

[]

"[]" is the indexing operator. If the index is out of bounds, the runtime generates a run-time panic:

panic: runtime error: index out of range

Applies to:

• strings
• arrays

:=

Variable declaration and assignment. Also known as short variable declaration operator.