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A cool thing about a Go map or a dictionary, is that if a key is not initialized, then it returns the default value.
Here's an example:
intmap := make(map[int]bool)
Suppose now you add an entry into intmap with:
intmap[1] = true
And you retrieve a non-existent key:
boolval := intmap[2]
boolval will then contain a value of false, the default value for a boolean in Go.