Why set a variable by reference (&) over a simple assignment

[Alex_Leonhardt]

Ah, in my last post I meant to say

… would be foo of type &http.Client with the custom CheckRedirect function

that said, does my last post make sense ?

thanks!

[calmh (Jakob Borg)]

I’m not really clear on the shadowing and stuff, but yes - if you have a pointer, and change the thing it points to, and someone else has a copy of that same pointer and reads the thing, they’ll see the change.

[Alex_Leonhardt]

great, thanks again! and thanks for being patient with me … i think it slowly comes together
alex