New to GoLang, coming from Delphi, C++ :
First time I tried to create my own package in Go, I followed all the instructions about how to lay out the workspace, etc, but I kept on getting a compiler error:
./myPackage.go:52: undefined: myFunc
After poking around a bit I discovered that the public access modifier in Go is achieved simply by declaring a function in upper case. Great.
But when I started experimenting with the container classes - List for starters, I discovered I had to declare a List reference return value like this:
func GetFactors(value *int64) *list.List {...
*list is in lower case.
Same when I declared a local reference to a list - I had to use:
l := list.New()
Again, lower case for list.
So, I'm confused. What is the rule? The list calls and references are obviously public, or I wouldn't be able to call/use them - so why are they in lower case?