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A Brief Guide to Pointers

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By Dieter Jordens, Silviu Matei, Félix Paradis, James Mallison
| The Startup Verified
When computers run code, they pass around variables like ints, floats, strings and structs by value at runtime. That is they: make a copy of the variable pass it into a function return the copied variable overwriting the original one Take the following GO snippet. It sets up a User struct and checks that the user u is old enough to drink alcohol in the UK. Here, User u is created on line 18 and copied when it is passed to isOldEnough on line 20. This is called passing by value.
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