In Golang, It is allowed to return multiple values from a function, using a return statement. The type of the return values is matches type defined for parameters.

Example:

func functionName(x, y int)(int, int){
     return x*3, y*7
}

Named Return Values

It is also provided names to the return values and the same can be used in code. It is not necessary to write these names with a return statement because the Go compiler will automatically understand that these variables have to return. This type of return is known as the bare return. This reduces the duplication in your program.

func calculateArea(x, y int)( rectangleArea int, squareArea ) int {
     rectangleArea = x*y
     squareArea = x*x
     return
}

Here rectangleArea and squareArea are the named returned values.

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