Go Concepts - Operators: Difference between revisions

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Structure fields.
Used for:
* access of a <tt>struct</tt>'s fields.
* invoke a method on the instance of the type the [[Go_Concepts_-_Functions#Methods|method]] is associated with.

Revision as of 04:32, 30 March 2016

External

Internal

+

Addition or concatenation. The compiler figures out the semantics based on the operands' types.

Applies to:

-

Subtraction

*

* is the multiplication operator.

* is used with pointers as dereference operator. For more details see reference and dereference operators.

* designates pointer types.

&

& is the reference operator. For more details see reference and dereference operators.

/

Division

%

Remainder

=

The assignment operator.

+=

Addition and assignment.

==

The equality operator. Returns a boolean value.

[]

"[]" 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:

:=

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

<-

.

Used for:

  • access of a struct's fields.
  • invoke a method on the instance of the type the method is associated with.