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title: "Type switches"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/type-switches-tmvaf1szl
source_url: https://boldlygo.tech/archive/2024-05-16-type-switches
type: article
source: "Boldly Go"
published: 2026-05-31T07:49:22.688Z
updated: 2026-05-31T09:10:08.378Z
tags: ["golang"]
reading_time: 1
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comments: 0
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# Type switches

**[Boldly Go](https://daily.dev/sources/boldlygo)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

An introduction to type switches in Go, showing how they compare types rather than values. Demonstrates the equivalence between chained if-else type assertion blocks and the cleaner type switch syntax using `switch x.(type)`, with examples covering int, float64, and string cases.

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