Golang tips: why pointers to slices are useful and how ignoring them can lead to tricky bugs

Golang tips: why pointers to slices are useful and how ignoring them can lead to tricky bugs
Pointers to slices: useless or indispensable?
Paolo Gallina
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Aug 20, 2019
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DoubtToday while I was working a nice question arose:
Why in many BuiltIn function and libraries it is common to see as arguments…
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Written by Paolo Gallina
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