The Go Programming Language

5.6 Anonymous Functions

Named functions can be declared only at the package level, but we can use a function literal to denote a function value within any expression. A function literal is written like a function declaration, but without a name following the func keyword. It is an expression, and its value is called an anonymous function.

Function literals let us define a function at its point of use. As an example, the earlier call to strings.Map can be rewritten as

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strings.Map(func(r rune) rune { return r + 1 }, "HAL-9000")

More importantly, functions defined in this way have access to the entire lexical environment, so the inner function can refer to variables from the enclosing function, as this example ...