Merge pull request #3833 from MaerF0x0/master

go/en: add type switch and multiple cases

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/go.html.markdown b/go.html.markdown
index 4fc155b5..49f1ade4 100644
--- a/go.html.markdown
+++ b/go.html.markdown
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ contributors:
     - ["Alexej Friesen", "https://github.com/heyalexej"]
     - ["Clayton Walker", "https://github.com/cwalk"]
     - ["Leonid Shevtsov", "https://github.com/leonid-shevtsov"]
+    - ["Michael Graf", "https://github.com/maerf0x0"]
 ---
 
 Go was created out of the need to get work done. It's not the latest trend
@@ -196,7 +197,7 @@ func learnFlowControl() {
 	x := 42.0
 	switch x {
 	case 0:
-	case 1:
+	case 1, 2: // Can have multiple matches on one case
 	case 42:
 		// Cases don't "fall through".
 		/*
@@ -208,6 +209,19 @@ func learnFlowControl() {
 	default:
 		// Default case is optional.
 	}
+
+	// Type switch allows switching on the type of something instead of value
+	var data interface{}
+	data = ""
+	switch c := data.(type) {
+	case string:
+		fmt.Println(c, "is a string")
+	case int64:
+		fmt.Printf("%d is an int64\n", c)
+	default:
+		// all other cases
+	}
+
 	// Like if, for doesn't use parens either.
 	// Variables declared in for and if are local to their scope.
 	for x := 0; x < 3; x++ { // ++ is a statement.