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

While the other answers are useful, I think in this case it is best just to make non-mutating functions not take a pointer:

func (i item) GetName() string{
    return i.itemName
}

func (i item) GetAmount() int{
    return i.amount
}