The Go Programming Language Go ▽ Documents Packages The Project Help Blog JSON and Go Go: one year ago today golang.org Install Go A Tour of Go Go Documentation Go Mailing List Go on Google+ Go+ Community Go on Twitter Blog index The Go Blog Go Slices: usage and internals 5 January 2011 Go's slice type provides a convenient and efficient means of working with sequences of typed data. Slices are analogous to arrays in other languages, but have some unusual properties. This article will look at what slices are and how they are used. The slice type is an abstraction built on top of Go's array type, and so to understand slices we must first understand arrays. An array type definition specifies a length and an element type. For example, the type [4]int represents an array of four integers. An array's size is fixed; its length is part of its type ( [4]int...