Scopes in Go

 Posted on August 16, 2020  (Last modified on August 23, 2020)  |  1 minutes  |  Kinshuk Chandra

Same name cannot be declared again inside a same scope. There are following types of scopes in Go:

  1. package: Each Go package has it’s own scope. For e.g. declared funcs are only visible to the files belonging to same package.
  2. file: Imported packages are only visible to the importing file. Each file has to import external packages on it’s own.
  3. func.
  4. block.
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