Editing Pointer (computer programming) (section)

===Go===
[[Go (programming language)|Go]] has pointers. Its declaration syntax is equivalent to that of C, but written the other way around, ending with the type. Unlike C, Go has garbage collection, and disallows pointer arithmetic. Reference types, like in C++, do not exist. Some built-in types, like maps and channels, are boxed (i.e. internally they are pointers to mutable structures), and are initialized using the <code>make</code> function. In an approach to unified syntax between pointers and non-pointers, the arrow (<code>-></code>) operator has been dropped: the dot operator on a pointer refers to the field or method of the dereferenced object. This, however, only works with 1 level of indirection.