s now inside a pair of brackets (<code>[]</code>). If the star symbol is inside a pair of brackets, you know that this object is a many-item pointer.</p>
<p>When you apply the <code>&amp;</code> operator over an object, you will always get a single-item pointer. Many-item pointers are more of a “internal type” of the language, more closely related to slices. So, when you deliberately create a pointer with the <code>&amp;</code> operator, you always get a single-item pointer as result.</p>
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