[go-nuts] Re: totalling a column in a html template.

2016-08-26 Thread Carl Ranson
Ok, Thanks for the answers. I've gone down the route of adding totals to my data structure. cheers, CR. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gol

[go-nuts] totalling a column in a html template.

2016-08-25 Thread Carl Ranson
HI All, been playing with using go to pull data from a few sources and serve a consolidated view as a webpage. I've got most of it going ok, but hitting a wall trying to do a totals row in an output table. anyone know if the html/template package is able to do this? the fallback is to prec

[go-nuts] Re: first program, game of life in go

2016-07-28 Thread Carl Ranson
ok, fair enough. I guess I'm just used to thinking of concurrency in database terms where locking is involved. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email

[go-nuts] Re: first program, game of life in go

2016-07-28 Thread Carl Ranson
Anyone got any thoughts on the way I've used channels to synchronize things? Would I be much better off using chan bool instead of chan string for signaling? I've seen some code that suggests that chan interface{} is a valid. what can you send on that? thanks, CR -- You received this mes

[go-nuts] Re: first program, game of life in go

2016-07-27 Thread Carl Ranson
Thanks Egon, Ok, I take your point that one needs to strike a balance with the work done in each goroutine to achieve optimum performance. i understand that each goroutine doing a subblock of the board using bitmaps would be faster, but as a learning exercise i'm keeping it simple. In fact I

[go-nuts] first program, game of life in go

2016-07-27 Thread Carl Ranson
HI all, So I figured Conways game of life would be a good exercise to get my feet wet with go. Specifically i wanted to make the calculation of the next board state to be concurrent. I started a separate goroutine for each cell and then used a pair of channels to synchronize updating to the