go-control-flow

SKILL.md

Source: Effective Go. Go's control structures are related to C but differ in important ways. Understanding these differences is essential for writing idiomatic Go code.

Go has no do or while loop—only a generalized for. There are no parentheses around conditions, and bodies must always be brace-delimited.

Go's if requires braces and has no parentheses around the condition:

Go control flow idioms from Effective Go. Covers if with initialization, omitting else for early returns, for loop forms, range, switch without fallthrough, type switch, and blank identifier patterns. Use when writing conditionals, loops, or switch statements in Go. Source: cxuu/golang-skills.

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