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Re:Go is Not Python by jimsmart on Thursday June 22, 2017 @06:43PM (#14615887) 

  fredPtr = nil // This line is superfluous.
In Go, declarations always initialise variables to their zero value, which for all pointers is nil.

(Perhaps worthy of a follow up article: "Go is Not C/C++"? ;)

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