I think you posted this comment on the wrong post, but anyway: In this case, no, and it's actually slightly inefficient to pass those variables as arguments, b

I think you posted this comment on the wrong post, but anyway: In this case, no, and it's actually slightly inefficient to pass those variables as arguments, because a copy of the argument has to be made. This copying matters more if the argument is a big struct or another large value. However often it is useful to use arguments, for example when calling a goroutine in a loop. For example: for i := 0; i < 10; i++ { go func() { fmt.Println(i) }() } vs for i := 0; i < 10; i++ { go func(i int) { fmt.Println(i) }(i) } have different behaviours, because the first receives the (changing) `i` variable itself, whereas the second receives a copy of `i` at each iteration. The second behaviour is often the behaviour we actually want. Something like for i := 0; i < 10; i++ { i := i go func() { fmt.Println(i) }() } also works as expected.