If you only need the map conditionally, you need to declare it and then
conditionally make it.
```
var m map[string]int
if needMap {
m = make(map[string]int)
}
```
On Mon, 2017-10-16 at 21:52 -0700, Alex Dvoretskiy wrote:
> Hello, Golang Nuts!
>
> I have an interesting question about maps. What is the possible usage
> of
> nil maps, which can be declared like "var m map[string]int"? You
> can't
> write to nil map but have an option to create it.
>
> Perhaps there is no use at all and this is just language specific
> feature?
>
> Thank you.
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