Local variables

The first solution often used is to declare local variables in order to derive pointers, ex. (Go playground):

  1. func main() {
  2.     // Declare "host" and "port" in order to create pointers to satisfy the
  3.     // fields in the "request" struct.
  4.     host, port := "local", 80
  6.     print(request{
  7.         host: &host,
  8.         port: &port,
  9.     })
  10. }

This leads to cluttered, hard-to-read code where the only purpose variables serve is for deriving pointers.

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