This reminds me a lot of C99 compound literals: one of the Go suggestions looks like &int(3) which in C99 is spelled &(int){ 3 }. (I was slightly surprised whe

This reminds me a lot of C99 compound literals: one of the Go suggestions looks like &int(3) which in C99 is spelled &(int){ 3 }. (I was slightly surprised when I learned that C99 compound literals are not just for structs: you can use any complete object type, and the result is an lvalue so you can take its address.)