Dereferencing a map index in Golang

Question

I\'m learning Go currently and I made this simple and crude inventory program just to tinker with structs and methods to understand how they work. In the driver file I try t

Answer 1

A map entry cannot be addressed (as its address might change during map growth/shrink), so you cannot call pointer receiver methods on them.

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