In Go, a package-level variable is a variable declared at the package scope
, outside of any function or method. These variables are declared within the package's source file and are accessible to all functions and methods defined within the same package.
Package-level variables are sometimes called global variables
because of their accessibility within the package, but they are limited to the scope of the package and are not global across the entire program
Here's an example of a package-level variable in Go:
package mypackage
import "fmt"
// This is a package-level variable
var PackageLevelVariable int
func FunctionUsingPackageVariable() {
// Access the package-level variable
fmt.Println(PackageLevelVariable)
}
In the code above, PackageLevelVariable
is a package-level variable. It's accessible from within the FunctionUsingPackageVariable
function as well as from other functions and methods defined within the mypackage
package.