I asked that in the thread, response here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45624#issuecomment-822590091 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45624#issuecomme

I asked that in the thread, response here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45624#issuecomment-822590091 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45624#issuecomment-82259... With my reply (and further exploration) here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45624#issuecomment-822632731 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45624#issuecomment-82263... tl;dr: Go uses casts to coerce values to the correct types, which means you couldn't get pointers to number literals for non-default number types.