Anonymous Goroutine
Explore how to define and use anonymous goroutines in Go to perform concurrent tasks. Understand their syntax, inline execution, variable access, and why they rely on channels instead of return values to communicate asynchronously.
An anonymous function is a function that doesn’t have a name or an identifier. Anonymous functions can accept inputs and return outputs just like standard functions. Let’s go through some uses of an anonymous function.
Uses of an anonymous function
- If we want to use the function once or a limited number of times, an anonymous function may be syntactically lighter than a named function.
- It is useful to help avoid needless global namespace pollution.
- We can declare anonymous functions inline. Inline functions have the advantage of accessing the variables in the parent scopes.
- The code seems more self-contained and readable.
Create an anonymous function
Declaration syntax for anonymous functions is ...