Initially I found it quite baffling, that slices or hash tables don't need initialization to be valid, but long term, I find this brilliant. Especially for slic

Initially I found it quite baffling, that slices or hash tables don't need initialization to be valid, but long term, I find this brilliant. Especially for slices, that a zeroed out slice struct is a valid empty slice is very clever and simplle. I also don't see what your problem with time is. Zero is one set point in time. Not sure, why you want an "invalid" timestamp. Does make as little sense to me as an "invalid" integer. Why would you need to check that a time value has been explicitly initialized? And for most purposes, the zero value pretty much would express that anyway. If not, you can wrap the time value into a struct with a nonpublic initialized bool slot. But I really would like to know what your use case for this would be.