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Re:Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan Answer Questions on Go by kornish on Friday November 20, 2015 @02:02PM (#10603111)
To be fair, we don't know if `Baz` is a pointer or value receiver in the parent example. So it could: https://play.golang.org/p/fYO8jBbVQ5
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Re:Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan Answer Questions on Go by mratzloff on Friday November 20, 2015 @02:23PM (#10603252)
That's true, but it's pretty uncommon for a function to receive a value, and if so you either have a good reason for it or you're doing something wrong.
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