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sudhirj on April 27, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go: Best Practices for Production Enviroments

Why the advice against `make` and `new`? Is it only because make sometimes requires you to know sizes in advance?

tptacek on April 27, 2014 | [–]

It's less noisy just to take the address of an automatic variable, like foo := &Bar{}

enneff on April 27, 2014 | [–]

It's just their style, to keep things consistent.

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