Greetings, Future Coder! Today, we're going to deepen our knowledge of the Go programming language as we explore loop structures. Think of loops as roads you walk down, going in circles until you find your way out - or in our case, satisfy a condition. The Go language uses only one looping keyword, the for
loop, and we're about to see how it efficiently covers the functionalities typically provided by while
and do-while
loops in other languages.
In Go programming, a for
loop can handle tasks usually performed by a while
loop in many other languages. This is done by using only the conditional part of the for
loop.
Here is the for
loop's structure, which mimics a while
loop:
Below is a simple for
structure that acts like a while
loop, counting down from 5 to 0:
