// ==================================================== // Data-Structures-with-Go Copyright(C) 2017 Furkan Türkal // This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; This is free software, // and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; See // file LICENSE, which is part of this source code package, for details. // ==================================================== package main import "fmt" type Node struct { data int left *Node right *Node } //Returns an initialized list func (n *Node) Init(data int) *Node { n.data = data n.left = nil n.right = nil return n } //Returns an new list func New(data int) *Node { return new(Node).Init(data) } /* Compute the "height" of a tree -- the number of     nodes along the longest path from the root node     down to the farthest leaf node.*/ func DeleteTree(node *Node) { //1. Check if the given node is NULL if node == nil { return } //2. First delete both subtrees DeleteTree(node.left) DeleteTree(node.right) //3. Then delete the node fmt.Printf("\nDeleting node: %d", node.data) //free(node); node = nil } func main() { //To allocate dynamically a new Node in C language : root = (struct Node*) malloc(sizeof(struct Node)); root := New(1) root.left = New(2) root.right = New(3) root.left.left = New(4) root.left.right = New(5) DeleteTree(root) root = nil fmt.Println("\nTree deleted") }