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Re:The language I wish Go was by sausagefeet on Thursday October 21, 2010 @10:44AM (#1815588)
Is there any point where you would want to pass a pointer but NOT because you want mutable state, simply because it's more efficient or something?
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Re:The language I wish Go was by jpr on Thursday October 21, 2010 @01:54PM (#1816635)
Well, pointers have fixed size, random structures may be arbitrarily big and involve a crapload of copying.
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