On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 3:28 PM <prades.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is overrated is the use of "interface { }" and reflection AKA
runtime magics which has no place in a modern statically typed language.
interface{} is not a replacement of generics. Interfaces with a real
methods set, like sort.Interface sometimes are.
> It's a cop-out, it's dirty and a direct consequence of the absence
of generics in Go.
Not true. interface{} and reflection is, for example, used by fmt.Printf
for purpose where generics won't help. Alternatively everything must have a
Format() method. But predeclared types cannot have methods.
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