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Golang program for implementation of Pancake Sort

Pancake sorting is the colloquial term for the mathematical problem of sorting a disordered stack of pancakes in order of size when a spatula can be inserted at any point in the stack and used to flip all pancakes above it. A pancake number is the maximum number of flips required for a given number of pancakes. Here is source code of the Go Program to implement Pancake Sorting Algorithm.

Example

package main
 
import "fmt"
 
func main() {
    list := data{28, 11, 59, -26, 503, 158, 997, 193, -23, 44}
    fmt.Println("\n--- Unsorted --- \n\n", list)
 
    list.pancakesort()
    fmt.Println("\n--- Sorted ---\n\n", list, "\n")
}
 
type data []int32
 
func (dataList data) pancakesort() {
    for uns := len(dataList) - 1; uns > 0; uns-- {
        // find largest in unsorted range
        lx, lg := 0, dataList[0]
        for i := 1; i <= uns; i++ {
            if dataList[i] > lg {
                lx, lg = i, dataList[i]
            }
        }
        // move to final position in two flips
        dataList.flip(lx)
        dataList.flip(uns)
    }
}
 
func (dataList data) flip(r int) {
    for l := 0; l < r; l, r = l+1, r-1 {
        dataList[l], dataList[r] = dataList[r], dataList[l]
    }
}

Output

--- Unsorted ---

 [28 11 59 -26 503 158 997 193 -23 44]

--- Sorted ---

 [-26 -23 11 28 44 59 158 193 503 997]
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