Curriculum Foundations Variables and declarations

Variables and declarations

TypeScript uses let and const to introduce variables; the type is inferred or annotated explicitly. Go has two short forms for the same job:

name := value — the short declaration. Inferred type. Idiomatic at function scope. This is what you'll write most of the time.
var name type = value — the full form. Required at package scope and useful when you want to declare without initialising, or pin the type explicitly.

const exists in Go too, but only for compile-time constants (integers, strings, floats, booleans) — not for "this binding doesn't get reassigned" the way TS uses const. We'll come back to that.

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Inside a function, which is the idiomatic Go translation of this

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Sometimes you want to spell out a variable's type even when you're

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TS const means "this binding can't be reassigned." Go const means

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TypeScript can declare several variables in one statement by

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Fill in the blanks to produce the idiomatic Go translation of the