Go maps in action - The Go Programming LanguageAndrew Gerrand 6 February 2013 Introduction One of the most useful data structures in computer science is the hash table. Many hash table implementations exist with varying properties, but in general they offer fast lookups, adds, and deletes. Go provides a built-in map type that implements a hash table. Declaration and initialization A Go map type looks like this: map[KeyType]ValueType where KeyT
