If they did it without you explicitly making bool a pointer, then it would be syntactic sugar and it would kind of fall away from the spirit of Go which is, if

If they did it without you explicitly making bool a pointer, then it would be syntactic sugar and it would kind of fall away from the spirit of Go which is, if you look at a file everything that's happening is known to you, there's no metaprogramming witchcraft anywhere in sight usually.