For
Go has only one looping construct, the for
loop.
The basic for
loop has three components separated by semicolons:
- the init statement: executed before the first iteration
- the condition expression: evaluated before every iteration
the post statement: executed at the end of every iteration
The init statement will often be a short variable declaration, and the variables declared there are visible only in the scope of the
for
statement.The loop will stop iterating once the boolean condition evaluates to
false
.
Note: Unlike other languages like C, Java, or JavaScript there are no parentheses surrounding the three components of the for
statement and the braces { }
are always required.
for.go
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
sum := 0
for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
sum += i
}
fmt.Println(sum)
}