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<h2><a href="./">Go by Example</a>: Variables</h2>
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<p>In Go, <em>variables</em> are explicitly declared and used by
the compiler to e.g. check type-correctness of function
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<a href="http://play.golang.org/p/Zv45CSMaiD"><img title="Run code" src="play.png" class="run" /></a>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">package</span> <span class="nx">main</span>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="s">&quot;fmt&quot;</span>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kd">func</span> <span class="nx">main</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="p">{</span>
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<p><code>var</code> declares 1 or more variables.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre> <span class="kd">var</span> <span class="nx">a</span> <span class="kt">string</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">&quot;initial&quot;</span>
<span class="nx">fmt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">Println</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">a</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>You can declare multiple variables at once.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre> <span class="kd">var</span> <span class="nx">b</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">c</span> <span class="kt">int</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">2</span>
<span class="nx">fmt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">Println</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">b</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nx">c</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>Go will infer the type of initialized variables.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre> <span class="kd">var</span> <span class="nx">d</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="kc">true</span>
<span class="nx">fmt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">Println</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">d</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>Variables declared without a corresponding
initialization are <em>zero-valued</em>. For example, the
zero value for an <code>int</code> is <code>0</code>.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre> <span class="kd">var</span> <span class="nx">e</span> <span class="kt">int</span>
<span class="nx">fmt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">Println</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">e</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<p>The <code>:=</code> syntax is shorthand for declaring and
initializing a variable, e.g. for
<code>var f string = &quot;short&quot;</code> in this case.</p>
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<div class="highlight"><pre> <span class="nx">f</span> <span class="o">:=</span> <span class="s">&quot;short&quot;</span>
<span class="nx">fmt</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="nx">Println</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nx">f</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">$</span> go run variables.go
<span class="go">initial</span>
<span class="go">1 2</span>
<span class="go">true</span>
<span class="go">0</span>
<span class="go">short</span>
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