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Congrats! You can now change variable values even when the variables are out of scope!
The following concepts were covered in this lesson:
- Go is a pass-by-value language.
- An address is where a value is stored.
- To find an address of a variable, use the
&operator before a variable. - Pointers are variables that store an address.
- A pointer is specific to what type of address it can store.
- The
*operator can be used to assign a pointer the type of the value its address holds. - The
*operator can also be used to dereference a pointer and assign a new value.
Instructions
If you want to practice more with pointers and addresses:
- Create a function that changes a boolean value from a different scope.
- Create a function that changes a float value from a different scope.
- Find the zero value of a pointer that is initialized but hasn’t been assigned a value.
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