Search⌘ K
AI Features
Home
Courses
Go Brain Teasers

Puzzle 6 Explanation: Timeout

Explore the concept of timeout in Go programming by understanding how type inference affects variable handling. Learn to fix type mismatch errors involving int and time.Duration, improving your coding skills and preventing common mistakes.

We'll cover the following...

Try it yourself

Try executing the code below to see the result for yourself.

Go (1.16.5)
package main
import (
	"fmt"
	"time"
)
func main() {
	timeout := 3
	fmt.Printf("before ")
	time.Sleep(timeout * time.Millisecond)
	fmt.Println("after")
}

Explanation

When we write timeout := 3, the Go ...