// starting with the least-significant bit of the lowest word to the
// most-significant bit of the highest word, map to the full range of all
// 128 ASCII characters. The 128-bits of the upper 16 bytes will be zeroed,
// ensuring that any non-ASCII character will be reported as not in the set.
// This allocates a total of 32 bytes even though the upper half
// is unused to avoid bounds checks in asciiSet.contains.
type asciiSet [8]uint32

<p>
The built-in function <code>clear</code> takes an argument of <a href="#Map_types">map</a>,
<a href="#Slice_types">slice</a>, or <a href="#Type_parameter_declarations">type parameter</a> type,
and deletes or zeroes out all elements
[<a href="#Go_1.21">Go 1.21</a>].
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<pre class="grammar">
Call        Argument type     Result

clear(m)    map[K]T           deletes all entries, resulting in an

for strings, and <code>nil</code> for pointers, functions, interfaces, slices, channels, and maps.
This initialization is done recursively, so for instance each element of an
array of structs will have its fields zeroed if no value is specified.
</p>
<p>
These two simple declarations are equivalent:
</p>

<pre>
var i int
var i int = 0
</pre>

<p>
After
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<pre>