Merge pull request #657 from szaydel/master

Golang - lack of information about named return values in functions
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Levi Bostian 2014-06-23 09:57:17 -05:00
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@ -116,6 +116,16 @@ can include line breaks.` // Same string type.
learnFlowControl() // Back in the flow.
}
// It is possible, unlike in many other languages for functions in go
// to have named return values.
// Assigning a name to the type being returned in the function declaration line
// allows us to easily return from multiple points in a function as well as to
// only use the return keyword, without anything further.
func learnNamedReturns(x, y int) (z int) {
z = x * y
return // z is implicit here, because we named it earlier.
}
// Go is fully garbage collected. It has pointers but no pointer arithmetic.
// You can make a mistake with a nil pointer, but not by incrementing a pointer.
func learnMemory() (p, q *int) {