Chris James shared this blog by Dave Chaney which has some great discussion on GO.

Learnings Chapter: Integers

  • When writing tests we can format the displayed text
    • String: ‘%q’
    • Integer: ‘%d’
  • Go module are collection of packages ie functions that be called from another module
  • package is directory that contains functions and or test
  • go.mod is a dependencies management file think package.json or gemfile
  • In go you can define Example functions inside of a _test.go file, the benefit of this that the example can be tested. If an example ws in a readme and the function where to change we easily forget to update the example.
    • ```go func ExampleAdd() { sum := Add(1, 5) fmt.Println(sum) // Output: 6 }
    • Note Example functions without output comments are compiled but not executed.
  • To execute a test run
    • go test if package is in root
    • if multiple packages in a module use
      • go test ./package add the -v flag for more info.
      • cd into package directory and run go test
      • from module root run go test ./... ie recursively run test on subdirectories