golang-type-structs.md

Title: Golang: Types and the struct type Tags: golang,golang-type,golang-struct

The 'type' keywords sets a new name for a type in your system. The new type will be a different name for one of golang's internal types, 'string' for example.

	type NewType string

Now you can say

	var someVar NewType
	someVar = "Hello"
	fmt.Println(someVar)

It gets interesting when you use a struct type. This is simply aggregate of other types.

	type NewType struct {
		age int
		name string
	}

You access the fields using the dot operator.

	var someVar NewType
	someVar.name = "Jim"
	fmt.Println(someVar.name)