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Yeah, I get it. There's an idiom. Still, that glitch is guaranteed to catch everyone off guard, experienced or otherwise, when taking up golang. As I said, it's an entry on the list, and such a list exists for most (all?) mainstream languages. At least it's minor compared to nil, a flaw somehow promulgated in a brand new language many years after anyone purporting to be a language designer would or should have known to avoid. That's a mystery for the ages right there.