create a pointer to a slice in go

In Go, we can create pointers to slices using the built-in & operator. Here is an example:

main.go
package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    var s = []int{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
    var p = &s

    fmt.Println(*p)
}
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In this example, we create a slice s with 5 elements and then create a pointer p to the slice using the & operator. We can then dereference the pointer using the * operator to print the elements of the slice.

Since slices are already reference types in Go, creating a pointer to a slice can be useful in certain memory management scenarios, where we need to pass the slice between functions and want to avoid copying the underlying data.