<p>Hi I am currently teaching myself Golang in my spare time and one thing that keeps popping up but I cant find the documentation because I dont know what its called.</p>
<p>is the * and the & that is prefixed to parameters or variables, What is it or what is it called so I can try figure it out on the go docs?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<hr/>**评论：**<br/><br/>anonfunction: <pre><p>Golang allows pointers to the underlying memory of a value. This is useful because when you pass a non-pointer to a function it is copied. </p>
<p>Here’s an in depth guide on the subject:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.golang-book.com/books/intro/8" rel="nofollow">http://www.golang-book.com/books/intro/8</a></p>
<p>I recommend reading this book in addition to the official Golang tour because it has additional information and is easy to understand for new programmers. </p></pre>aterocana: <pre><p>Actually even pointer are passed by copy, it is just the copy points to the same underlying address.
Commenting just to avoid confusion in newbie.</p></pre>SeerUD: <pre><p>That is to say; everything is passed by value, pointers are values too, they just refer to the location of another value.</p></pre>twetewat: <pre><p><a href="https://tour.golang.org/moretypes/1" rel="nofollow">https://tour.golang.org/moretypes/1</a></p>
<p><a href="https://dave.cheney.net/2017/04/26/understand-go-pointers-in-less-than-800-words-or-your-money-back" rel="nofollow">https://dave.cheney.net/2017/04/26/understand-go-pointers-in-less-than-800-words-or-your-money-back</a></p></pre>gotoma: <pre><p>thanks dave cheney provided a brilliant primer to get me started!</p></pre>user3961: <pre><p>Ampersand->Address</p>
<p>Shit I guess Asterisk starts with A too</p></pre>lion_rouge: <pre><p>It's a star.</p></pre>
