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No, it's definitely passed by value: https://go.dev/play/p/mIehOwUWz95 https://go.dev/play/p/mIehOwUWz95 A map is implicitly a pointer to the underlying map s

by leg100 2y ago

No, it's definitely passed by value: https://go.dev/play/p/mIehOwUWz95 https://go.dev/play/p/mIehOwUWz95 A map is implicitly a pointer to the underlying map structure. When you pass a map, you're passing a copy of a pointer.