The bits of Go we avoid (and why) (Go Time #269)
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How to Use slices.clip to Make Sure Nobody Overwrites the End of a Slice
There's a function in the experimental generic slices package, which has actually been approved to be added to go 121 next fall. It sets the capacity of the slice to whatever the current length of the slice is. And so that way, if anybody does append to it, they'll get a copy instead of rewriting the existing one. I feel like that's so much clearer. If you're reading some code and you see slices.clip, it's like, okay, that's what they're doing. They're just like making sure nobody overwrites the end of the slice. But yeah, it does look quite weird. Remove bear return. The issue number 2 1 2 9 1 proposal go
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