Go: Function types and values

Functions in Go are first class citizens. Function types and function values can be used and passed around just like other values.

type Operator func(x float64) float64

// Map applies op to each element of a.
func Map(op Operator, a []float64) []float64 {
        res := make([]float64, len(a))
        for i, x := range a {
                res[i] = op(x)
        }
        return res
}

func main() {
        op := math.Abs
        a := []float64{1, -2}
        b := Map(op, a)
        fmt.Println(b) // [1 2]

        c := Map(func(x float64) float64 { return 10 * x }, b)
        fmt.Println(c) // [10, 20]
}

The second call to Map uses an anonymous function (or lambda). See Function literals and closures for more about lambdas in Go.

Details

A function type describes the set of all functions with the same parameter and result types.

• The value of an uninitialized variable of function type is nil.
• The parameter names are optional. The following two function types are identical:

  func(x, y int) int

  func(int, int) int

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concise and to the point. thanks!

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