I am using a for range
loop in Go to iterate through a slice of structs.
In each loop, I a pointer to the current item to a variable.
I am confused why the pointer changes value in the next loop.
For example this code:
package main
import "fmt"
type t struct {
val int
}
func main() {
l := []t{{1}, {2}}
var p *t
for _, i := range l {
fmt.Println("begin", p)
p = &i
fmt.Println("end", p)
}
}
I would expect to produce:
begin <nil>
end &{1}
begin &{1}
end &{2}
But actually does:
begin <nil>
end &{1}
begin &{2}
end &{2}
For reference, in my actual code, I am checking for a condition during the loop, and returning the current item and previous one. So I am trying to save a pointer to it, so that in the next iteration it will have access to the previous as well.