Which is also the reason why you can't insert into a nil map - you have to make() one.
On Wednesday, 15 March 2023 at 10:58:09 UTC Dan Kortschak wrote: > On Tue, 2023-03-14 at 19:56 -0700, Kurtis Rader wrote: > > Maps are a special-case. You can't pass them "by value" in the sense > > you mean because a "map" value is a very tiny structure that contains > > a pointer to the actual map. > > The passed value is a pointer to the header, otherwise changes to maps > would require the altered map to be returned as with slices and append. > > https://go.dev/play/p/avBBkNwVZRY > > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/0ffd9d0d-b80a-4ec5-a772-40dfb102b43an%40googlegroups.com.
