top | item 45211400 (no title) leononame | 5 months ago That is not true, though. Reading from a nil map panics, and reading from an empty map does not. discuss order hn newest int_19h|5 months ago It doesn't. E.g. this prints 0:var m map[string]int = nil fmt.Println(m["foo"])The language spec is also pretty clear on this; https://go.dev/ref/spec#Map_types:> A nil map is equivalent to an empty map except that no elements may be added.
int_19h|5 months ago It doesn't. E.g. this prints 0:var m map[string]int = nil fmt.Println(m["foo"])The language spec is also pretty clear on this; https://go.dev/ref/spec#Map_types:> A nil map is equivalent to an empty map except that no elements may be added.
int_19h|5 months ago
var m map[string]int = nil fmt.Println(m["foo"])
The language spec is also pretty clear on this; https://go.dev/ref/spec#Map_types:
> A nil map is equivalent to an empty map except that no elements may be added.