If saving one byte per entry is important for your application, the latter is your choice. The former has nicer properties that you can use the single value form of map access,
if m[key] { // found } I'd say the former is the right choice for 97.25% of general use cases. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.