Go Zero values More Complex Zero Values
Example
In slices the zero value is an empty slice.
var myIntSlice []int // [] - an empty slice
Use make to create a slice populated with values, any values created in the slice are set to the zero value of the type of the slice. For instance:
myIntSlice := make([]int, 5) // [0, 0, 0, 0, 0] - a slice with 5 zeroes
fmt.Println(myIntSlice[3])
// Prints 0
In this example, myIntSlice is a int slice that contains 5 elements which are all 0 because that's the zero value for the type int.
You can also create a slice with new, this will create a pointer to a slice.
myIntSlice := new([]int) // &[] - a pointer to an empty slice
*myIntSlice = make([]int, 5) // [0, 0, 0, 0, 0] - a slice with 5 zeroes
fmt.Println((*myIntSlice)[3])
// Prints 0
Note: Slice pointers don't support indexing so you can't access the values using myIntSlice[3], instead you need to do it like (*myIntSlice)[3].
