[masklinn]

That you don't deref pointers in Go is not what fixes this issue.

What fixes this issue is that, like most other languages which are not C, Go understands that "is a pointer" is a property of the type, not the name / value.

So even if it used C-style declaration, Go would say

    *int p

or, using a more verbose syntax

    Pointer[int] p

[kevin_thibedeau]

Even C isn't consistent about this:

  int * a, b; // "Property" of the variable

  typedef int * pint;
  pint x, y; // Property of the type

This has created so much bad legacy code where pointer typedefs are created for no good reason.