I believe they made a mistake with that example. It doesn't look unsafe to me because the myResults sliced passed to the goroutine is not used. Or perhaps the r

I believe they made a mistake with that example. It doesn't look unsafe to me because the myResults sliced passed to the goroutine is not used. Or perhaps the racy part was left out of their snippet. Below is what might be what they have meant. This code snippet is racy because an unsafe read of myResults is done to pass it to the goroutine and then that version of myResults is passed to safeAppend: func ProcessAll(uuids []string) { var myResults []string var mutex sync.Mutex safeAppend := func(results []string, res string) { mutex.Lock() myResults = append(myResults, res) mutex.Unlock() } for _, uuid := range uuids { go func(id string, results []string) { res := Foo(id) safeAppend(myResults, id) }(uuid, myResults) # <<< unsafe read of myResults } } EDIT: Formatting and clarity