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Even before we assign anything to our variables they hold a value. Go’s designers attempted to make these “sensible defaults” that we can anticipate based on the variable’s types. All numeric variables have a value of 0 before assignment. String variables have a default value of "", which is also known as the empty string because it contains no characters. Boolean variables have a default value of false. For example:

var classTime uint32 var averageGrade float32 var teacherName string var isPassFail bool fmt.Println(classTime) // Prints 0 fmt.Println(averageGrade) // Prints 0 fmt.Println(teacherName) // Doesn't print anything fmt.Println(isPassFail) // Prints false

Above we declared four variables, an unsigned 32-bit int, a 32-bit floating point number, a string, and a boolean. Without assigning any of the variables to a value we print them out to see their default value. The two numbers print the same result, 0, a valid value for both types. The empty string, when printed, displays nothing. The boolean value prints false.

Instructions

1.

Create a variable emptyInt that’s of type int8.

2.

Create a variable called emptyFloat that’s of type float32.

3.

Create an empty string called emptyString.

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Now print out all three variables on the same line. Since they’re not all strings you’ll have to separate them by commas, like so:

fmt.Println(emptyInt, emptyFloat, emptyString)

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