Initializing a field inside an anonymous struct

Question

Given this anonymous struct:

var myMap struct {
  list       map[string]string
  someStuff *some.Object
}

Can I initialize the list and someStuff in one declaration?

This doesn't work:

var myMap struct {
  list       map[string]string = make(map[string]string)
  someStuff *some.Object = &some.Object{}
}

Answer 1

Here you go:

var myMap = struct {
  list map[string]string
  str string
}{
  list: map[string]string{"hello":"string"},
  str: "myString",
}

You can also do it this way:

var myMap = struct {
  list map[string]string
  str string
}{map[string]string{"hello":"string"}, "myString"}

And a working example: Go PlayGround.

So you declare your structure and then in curly braces you initiate it. (I learned it from this old go talk.)