A pointer to an array is useful. A pointer to a slice is much less so; in fact, it's often a mistake. The slice already contains a pointer to the data (in fact, as a pointer to an array!). Best not to promote the bad idea.
-rob On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Patrick Smith <pat42sm...@gmail.com> wrote: > The spec says: > > "A primary expression of the form > > a[x] > > denotes the element of the array, pointer to array, slice, string or map a > indexed by x." > > I am curious about one point - what is the reason for allowing a to be a > pointer to array, but not allowing a to be a pointer to slice? In both > cases, a[x] would be equivalent to (*a)[x]. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
