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A Go Gotcha: When Closures and Goroutines Collide
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Date Published
Author
John Graham-Cumming
Word Count
380
Language
English
Hacker News Points
3
Summary
The text discusses an issue with goroutines and closures in Go programming language. It explains how using goroutines to run concurrently can lead to unexpected results when sharing a single variable across multiple closures, as demonstrated by the output "10 10 10..." instead of numbers from 0 to 9. The solution provided is to create a new variable and pass it as a parameter to the function call within each goroutine, ensuring that each closure has its own copy of the variable. This issue is also mentioned in the Go FAQ.