Curriculum Types & methods Pointers exercise 4 · fill-word
Pointers
Take the address of x to create the pointer. The blank is the
single operator that goes before the variable name.
This is the "take a pointer" half of the & / * pair. Exercise
5 will be the deref half.
TypeScript reference
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About this theme
&x takes the address of x. *p dereferences p. Pointers in Go are pointers — they're not garbage-collector-hostile, they don't do arithmetic (no p++), and they don't bite. They're the explicit version of "by reference" — TypeScript hides this behind "objects are references," Go makes it visible.