Annotated Example Go Program
// package main is a special package
// it allows Go to create an executable file
package main
/*
This is a multi-line comment.
import keyword makes another package available
for this .go "file".
import "fmt" lets you access fmt package's functionality
here in this file.
*/
import "fmt"
// "func main" is special.
//
// Go has to know where to start
//
// func main creates a starting point for Go
//
// After compiling the code,
// Go runtime will first run this function
func main() {
// after: import "fmt"
// Println function of "fmt" package becomes available
// Look at what it looks like by typing in the console:
// go doc -src fmt Println
// Println is just an exported function from
// "fmt" package
// Exported = First Letter is uppercase
fmt.Println("Hello Gopher!")
// Go cannot call Println function by itself.
// That's why you need to call it here.
// It only calls `func main` automatically.
// -----
// Go supports Unicode characters in string literals
// And also in source-code: KÖSTEBEK!
//
// Because: Literal ~= Source Code
}
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