What does "..." mean when next to a parameter in a go function declaration?

Question

I was going through some code written in Google's Go language, and I came across this: ``` func Statusln(a ...interface{}) func Statusf(format string, a ...interface{}) ``` I don't understand what the `...` means. Does anybody know?

Accepted Answer

It means that you can call Statusln with a variable number of arguments. For example, calling this function with:

```
Statusln("hello", "world", 42)
```

Will assign the parameter a the following value:

```
a := []interface{}{"hello", "world", 42}
```

So, you can iterate over this slice a and process all parameters, no matter how many there are. A good and popular use-case for variadic arguments is for example fmt.Printf() which takes a format string and a variable number of arguments which will be formatted according to the format string.

What does "..." mean when next to a parameter in a go function declaration?

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