package main import "fmt" func main() { // The make() builtin creates a an anonymous array, and // returns a slice which refers to it. The parameters are // the slice size and array size. The array size defaults // to the slice size. sli := make([]string, 5, 8) whole := sli[0:8] // Fill up 0-4 for i := range(sli) { sli[i] = "foo" } // Fill up the rest. sli = sli[5:8] for i := range(sli) { sli[i] = "bar" } // See what we got. for _,v := range(whole) { fmt.Print(v + " ") } fmt.Println() }