Have you considered using the new type alias feature introduced in 1.9? Line so:
https://play.golang.org/p/6HK8qcuh9UU This would allow you to change the type of the map in a singe place (the type alias) and all the *{}* or *make *would adapt appropriately. Disclaimer: I am not espousing this style, just pointing out that it is possible. On Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 3:03:13 PM UTC-5, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > > Hi all, > > It's been some time since I really contributed much of anything to the > project (sorry!), but after 8 years, I'm finally writing Go outside of > the project itself (and outside of porting efforts). I was lamenting > to some coworkers about the lack of a comparable feature to C's > "malloc idiom" and they suggested I write an experience report on it. > I wrote the bulk of the article a month ago, but finally put in some > finishing touches and published. > > For whatever it's worth (probably not much): > https://9vx.org/post/a-malloc-idiom-in-go/ > > --dho > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.