On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 4:01 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> var j int = 42
> var p *int
> p=&int(j)                         //this doesn't work
> fmt.Println(*p)
>

Yep, this is true.
You can't take the address of the return value of a function or a
conversion (which is conceptually just a function) because it doesn't
have a location in memory and thus doesn't have an address.
If you would like to take the address of a variable containing the
value returned from a function you'll need to assign that value to a
variable and take the address of that variable.

The relevant part of the language spec is
https://golang.org/ref/spec#Address_operators

- Jesse

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