I was reading the following conversation about go (golang) strings. Strings in go are just a pointer to a (read-only) array and a length. Thus, when you pass them to a function the pointers are passed as value instead of the whole string. Therefore, it occurred to me, if that is true, then why are you even allowed to define as a function with a signature that takes *string
as an argument? If the string is already doing plus, the data is immutable/read-only, so you can't change it anyway. What is the point in allowing go to pass pointers to strings if it already does that internally anyway?

在go(golang)中传递指向字符串的指针有什么意义?
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- douyou7797 2014-07-08 22:21关注
You pass a pointer to the "object" holding the string, which then you can assign something different to it.
Example: http://play.golang.org/p/Gsybc7Me-5
func ps(s *string) { *s = "hoo" } func main() { s := "boo" ps(&s) fmt.Println(s) }
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