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		twic on May 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go: A Surprising Edge Case Concerning Append and S... The point is more that it's a bad contract, isn't it? If a slice is something which can't safely be copied, then why can it be copied?

SamReidHughes on May 16, 2015 [–]

So that you can pass your slice to functions and actually make use of them.

That somebody could go along and start modifying data structures they aren't supposed to is a problem in Java, C#, ... many languages.

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