星号在“开始”中有什么作用

Question

I'm a web developer looking to expand my horizons in order to get better at programming as a whole. I've done a bit Java and some simple Android applications. I'm now looking into lower level languages like C and Go (which I must say has some beautiful syntax and great ideas thus far, though I'm maybe too inexperienced to comment).

So yeah I've been going though and trying to understand the examples on the Go website and I keep coming across a special asterisk character in example like this:

s := "hello"
if s[1] != 'e' {
    os.Exit(1)
}
s = "good bye"
var p *string = &s
*p = "ciao"

Also, I just noticed, whats with the "&s" is it assignment by reference (I might be using PHP talk here)?

Answer 1

Im guessing it means the same as in C

p is a pointer to a string

The statement var p *string = &s would assign the address of the s object to p

Next line *p = "ciao" would change the contents of s

See this link from the Language Design FAQ

Interestingly, no pointer arithmetic

Why is there no pointer arithmetic? Safety. Without pointer arithmetic it's possible to create a language that can never derive an illegal address that succeeds incorrectly. Compiler and hardware technology have advanced to the point where a loop using array indices can be as efficient as a loop using pointer arithmetic. Also, the lack of pointer arithmetic can simplify the implementation of the garbage collector.

Now I want to start learning GO!