On: Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of So...

[drivebyacct2]

    int *i, j;

is more than a good enough reason for me. Makes interviews interesting, though: "Why are you repeatedly writing your variables and function parameters incorrectly?"

[paupino_masano → drivebyacct2]

Interesting example. I'm still a newbie to Go, so would that be written as:

  var i int*
  var j int

My apologies if this seems like a simple question: I haven't played with the language enough to know :)

[EDIT: Sorry, I didn't realize how to format code!]

[Jabbles → paupino_masano]

The asterisk goes before the type for pointers:

    var i *int

Unlike C, values are always initialized in Go.

http://play.golang.org/p/8tAzKyES2I