The maximum value for an int type in Go

Question

How does one specify the maximum value representable for an unsigned integer type?

I would like to know how to initialize min in the loop below

Answer 1

One way to solve this problem is to get the starting points from the values themselves:

var minLen, maxLen uint
if len(sliceOfThings) > 0 {
  minLen = sliceOfThings[0].minLen
  maxLen = sliceOfThings[0].maxLen
  for _, thing := range sliceOfThings[1:] {
    if minLen > thing.minLen { minLen = thing.minLen }
    if maxLen < thing.maxLen { maxLen = thing.maxLen }
  }
}