Type and Kind

Reflection can inspect the runtime type and broad kind of a value.

type_kind.go

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"reflect"
)

func main() {
	var sample = 
	valueType := reflect.TypeOf(sample)
	kind := valueType.Kind()
	size := valueType.Size()

	fmt.Println("sample=", sample)
	fmt.Println("type=", valueType.String())
	fmt.Println("kind=", kind.String())
	fmt.Println("size=", size)
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"reflect"
)

func main() {
	var sample = 
	valueType := reflect.TypeOf(sample)
	kind := valueType.Kind()
	size := valueType.Size()

	fmt.Println("sample=", sample)
	fmt.Println("type=", valueType.String())
	fmt.Println("kind=", kind.String())
	fmt.Println("size=", size)
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"reflect"
)

func main() {
	var sample = 
	valueType := reflect.TypeOf(sample)
	kind := valueType.Kind()
	size := valueType.Size()

	fmt.Println("sample=", sample)
	fmt.Println("type=", valueType.String())
	fmt.Println("kind=", kind.String())
	fmt.Println("size=", size)
}

type and kind `reflect.TypeOf` reports the concrete type, while `Kind` groups types into categories like string, int, struct, and slice.