> GC only manages allocations. There are no allocations here to manage. You're missing the forest for the trees. The GC is integrally tied to lifetimes. If you

> GC only manages allocations. There are no allocations here to manage. You're missing the forest for the trees. The GC is integrally tied to lifetimes. If you have a `*Foo` in Go, that may or may not be on the stack. It might be on the stack, thus no allocation, if the Go compiler can prove something about its lifetime and usage. Same deal with `[]byte`. Maybe that's tied to an array on a stack somewhere. Maybe not. AFAIK, in order to get guarantees about this in Go you need to drop down into `unsafe`. > Yes, of course. The point is iterating over the lines of a file given the aforementioned constraints and not “implementing Rust’s Iterator abstraction”. Whether or not Go or C have iterator abstractions is immaterial. That's why the very first thing I said to you was to point out the closure approach. I even linked you to real code (that I've written) that does it. Yet 'round and 'round we go.