http://tour.golang.org/#40 A Tour of Go Exercise: Maps Implement WordCount. It should return a map of the counts of each “word” in the string s. The wc.Test function runs a test suite against the provided function and prints success or failure. You might find strings.Fields helpful.

gistfile1.go

package main

import (
    "strings"
    "code.google.com/p/go-tour/wc"
)

func WordCount(s string) map[string]int {
    m := make(map[string]int)
    for _, v := range strings.Fields(s) {
        if _, ok := m[v]; ok == true {
            m[v] += 1
        } else {
            m[v] = 1
        }
    }
    
    return m
}

func main() {
    wc.Test(WordCount)
}

package main

import (
    "golang.org/x/tour/wc"
    "strings"
)

func WordCount(s string) map[string]int {
    wc := make(map[string]int)
    for _ ,w:= range strings.Fields(s){
        wc[w]++
    }
    return wc
}

func main() {
    wc.Test(WordCount)
}

why did you initialize the m if it was first time using it?
doesn't go handles to set it to 0 if value was not set in first place?

Hi mistercorea,

I agree that your way is more elegant. However, this could be dangerous, because you assume the default value is always zero no matter what your OS or env is.

I'd like to point out that,
The line wc := make(map[string]int) defines that the elements of the map will be of int type(and keys will be of string type). So no matter what your OS or env is, the elements are going to be initialized to the zero value of int data type which is nothing but '0'. So, @mistercorea made a valid point here.