What version of Go are you using (go version)?

1.10

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

1.10 is the latest release at the time of this submission

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

darwin/amd64

What did you do?

play.golang example showing address reuse

1. Unmarshal or Decode JSON into a MyStruct
2. Unmarshal or Decode a second JSON into the same variable
3. Note how the address of the slice did not change

play.golang example demoing bad behavior

1. Unmarshal or Decode JSON into a MyStruct
2. Add that struct to a slice of MyStruct
3. Unmarshal or Decode a second JSON into the same variable
4. Note how the address of the slice did not change
5. Note how the underlying arrays have merged
6. Note how the Name field was deserialized correctly and was not overridden

What did you expect to see?

data1 and data2 were deserialized into structs, and appended to a slice without overriding each other.

What did you see instead?

data2's alphabet values overwrote elements in data1's alphabet. This is in contrast to how name behaves.