You are absolutely correct. To borrow form another's comment, https://play.golang.org/p/VOUJI88PNj https://play.golang.org/p/VOUJI88PNj The slice, however, is

You are absolutely correct. To borrow form another's comment, https://play.golang.org/p/VOUJI88PNj https://play.golang.org/p/VOUJI88PNj The slice, however, is a small structure to pass to a function in that you are not performing a copy of each individual element in the slice.