Assignment operator in Go language, what is difference between := and = ?

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and was wondering why the assignment operator := has a colon in front of the equal sign = Is there a particular reason why the authors of the language wanted to use name := "John" instead of name = "John"

Chris Gregori · Accepted Answer

The := notation serves both as a declaration and as initialization. foo := "bar" is equivalent to var foo = "bar" Why not using only foo = "bar" like in any scripting language, you may ask ? Well, that's to avoid typos. foo = "bar" fooo = "baz" + foo + "baz" // Oops, is fooo a new variable or did I mean 'foo' ?

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