Should have more detail about named return values.

There was not a section about named return values, and it feels like it is a valuable and important enough thing to learn early on. If nothing else, when looking at someone else's code this may be a point of confusion.
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Sam Zaydel 2014-06-22 06:20:12 -07:00
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@ -116,6 +116,16 @@ can include line breaks.` // Same string type.
learnFlowControl() // Back in the flow.
}
// It is possible, unlike in many other languages for functions on go
// to have named return values.
// We just have to assign a name to the type being returned in the function
// declaration line. This allows us to easily return from multiple points
// in a function as well as to only use the return keyword, without anything further.
func learnNamedReturns(x, y int) (z int) {
z = x * y
return // z is implicit here, because we named it earlier.
}
// Go is fully garbage collected. It has pointers but no pointer arithmetic.
// You can make a mistake with a nil pointer, but not by incrementing a pointer.
func learnMemory() (p, q *int) {