Greetings, Go astronaut in training! Today's itinerary includes studying the mainstay of programming control flow: conditional statements. These mechanisms steer the course of our Go program. Are you strapped in and ready to explore the if-else
statement? Let's start the countdown now!
The structure of if
and if-else
control flow in Go reflects the following:
Here, when the given condition
becomes true, we take action via the if
block. When the condition
is false, we have an optional else
block to resort to.
By using the if
statement in Go, we command the machine to undertake specific actions only when conditions are met. Let's imagine deciding to land on a planet with breathable air:
