I don't understand the behavior of the following piece of code. In creating a list of matching structs as a slice of struct pointers, the code always prints the last element of original array (which actually wasn't a match)—it prints 12 and 12. However, if I change matches to be []Widget instead of []*Widget, then it will print 10 and 11.
Why is this?
package main
import (
"fmt"
)
func main() {
type Widget struct {
id int
attrs []string
}
widgets := []Widget{
Widget{
id: 10,
attrs: []string{"blah", "foo"},
},
Widget{
id: 11,
attrs: []string{"foo", "bar"},
},
Widget{
id: 12,
attrs: []string{"xyz"},
},
}
var matches []*Widget
for _, w := range widgets {
for _, a := range w.attrs {
if a == "foo" {
matches = append(matches, &w)
break
}
}
}
for _, m := range matches {
fmt.Println(m.id)
}
}