In Go there are various ways to return a struct value or slice thereof. For individual ones I've seen: type MyStruct struct { Val int } func myfunc() MyStruct { return MyStruct{Val: 1} } func myfunc() *MyStruct { return &MyStruct{} } func myfunc(s *MyStruct) { s.Val = 1 } I understand the differences between these. The first returns a copy of the struct, the second a pointer to the struct value cr
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