Variables and constant are totally different things.
Work through https://tour.golang.org/basics/8 ff
and https://tour.golang.org/basics/15 ff
Memory usage and copy behaviour are not interesting
until you are comfortable with the basics of the language.
V.
On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 14:49:39 UTC+2, Alkesh Ghorpade wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am new to Go and trying to figure out difference between const vs var
> variables memory usage and initialization.
>
> I have following go code
> // way 1
> var a = []string{"abc", "def"}
>
> // way 2
> const (
> a = "abc"
> b = "def"
> )
>
> var a1 = []string{a, b}
>
> my variables a and a1 are defined in a file and not inside any function.
> Is there any difference in both ways. When I call variable a in any
> function does it creates a copy everytime it is called? Can you please tell
> me what happens when a or a1 is called and how they are referenced in
> memory when called.
>
>
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