ah! That makes a lot of sense actually. If you want to cause side effects in a function, you have to dereference something. (or call another evil function) Th

ah! That makes a lot of sense actually. If you want to cause side effects in a function, you have to dereference something. (or call another evil function) The only exception being dot operators, which implicitly dereference their left hand argument. (&x).whatever() == x.whatever() I wish go had used arrow notation now. Explicitly marking side effects is a good thing.