Why can't I duplicate a slice with `copy()`?

Question

I need to make a copy of a slice in Go and reading the docs there is a copy function at my disposal.

The copy built-in function copies elements from a so

Answer 1

NOTE: This is an incorrect solution as @benlemasurier proved

Here is a way to copy a slice. I'm a bit late, but there is a simpler, and faster answer than @Dave's. This are the instructions generated from a code like @Dave's. These is the instructions generated by mine. As you can see there are far fewer instructions. What is does is it just does append(slice), which copies the slice. This code:

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    var foo = []int{1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
    fmt.Println("foo:", foo)
    var bar = append(foo)
    fmt.Println("bar:", bar)
    bar = append(bar, 6)
    fmt.Println("foo after:", foo)
    fmt.Println("bar after:", bar)
}

Outputs this:

foo: [1 2 3 4 5]
bar: [1 2 3 4 5]
foo after: [1 2 3 4 5]
bar after: [1 2 3 4 5 6]