Introduction and Overview

Welcome back, explorers! Today, our expedition navigates the galaxy of variable-length arguments in Go. Just as a space mission requires an adaptable toolbox to handle any number of tasks, Go functions can adapt to deal with a varying number of arguments. Prepare for lift-off!

Taking Off: Understanding Variadic Functions

Firstly, let's understand variadic functions. Go possesses a special syntax feature that allows a function to accept zero or more arguments of a specific type. We declare a variadic function by using an ellipsis (...) before the type name of the last parameter in the function declaration.

In this greet function, names can accept any number of string arguments. The function processes each name in the loop, greeting each person individually.

Igniting the Rocket: Using Variadic Functions

Next, we'll explore variadic function calls. You can pass zero or more arguments of the specified type when calling a variadic function. If you have an existing slice, you can pass it as a variadic argument using ....

Here, we pass a slice, stars, to the variadic function as if it were a list of arguments.

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