Isn’t passing in pointers to slices considered an anti-pattern? I thought the go way would be to take the slice as argument by value and return possibly a diffe

Isn’t passing in pointers to slices considered an anti-pattern? I thought the go way would be to take the slice as argument by value and return possibly a different slice, like append does. I don’t think I’ve seen any (idiomatic) code that took slices by pointer.