On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 1:24 AM Kevin Chadwick <m8il1i...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Why doesn't go auto init or make an empty map for a named return to avoid the 
> potential chance of a panic due to operating on a nil return?

A non-zero value map value must be allocated. All well-known Go
compilers allocate maps in heap. Allocating automagically a map that
may end up never used is a waste of resources.

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