Trying to wrap my head around packages in Golang.
This is my workspace
/bin
/pkg
/src
/github.com
/esbenp
/testrepo
/subpackage
somefuncs.go
main.go
main.go
package main
import "github.com/esbenp/testrepo/subpackage"
func main() {
Somefunc()
}
somefuncs.go
package subpackage
import "fmt"
func Somefunc() {
fmt.Printf("yo")
}
I was under the impression that since Somefunc
starts with an uppercase letter it would be exported for use in other files that imported it. The ouput I get in the console is.
main.go:4: imported and not used: "github.com/esbenp/testrepo/subpackage"
main.go:8: undefined: Somefunc
Can someone point me in the right direction?
You have to prefix the function by the name of the package is belongs to: subpackage.Somefunc()
.
In the case you have several subpackages with the same name, you have to alias them while importing them, or there will be a conflict:
import (
xapi "x/xx/xxx/api"
yapi "y/yy/yyy/api"
)
When you import a package it will be made available under its name.
To address Somefunc in your main.go you have to do
subpackage.Somefunc()