[go-nuts] Assignment of pointer values in a struct...

Yep perfectly fine. MongoDB Driver for Go also uses such a wrapper at many places where it takes a string as an argument and returns a pointer to it which is required internally. Not really sure why use a pointer to strings in Go because they're immutable, but I guess to reach their own. -- Y

[go-nuts] Incorrect arithmetic answers

Hello, I was trying to implement Substring Search using a rolling hash function (fairly simple implementation): https://play.golang.org/p/_fjgxPC06So This works correctly and as expected. However, if you change the const `baseNumber` to 128, the program is unable to do the intermediate arithme