On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 6:08 PM Robert Engels <reng...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 100% true. The difficulty when examining a “large” system is that it > becomes very difficult to understand the relationships. Documentation can > help but it is not a great substitute for automated tools. > > In Java - actually all of OO - type casting is severely frowned upon - but > it seems a lot of Go code does it liberally. > > If I designed a language today I would prohibit any type casts. It is a > huge problem and points to insufficient design skills. Type-assertion is not exactly type-casting, though. And Go isn't exactly OO. > > > > On Sep 22, 2022, at 6:57 PM, Ian Davis <m...@iandavis.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 22 Sep 2022, at 11:27 PM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > > > I just wanted to respond to this part: > > > >> I suppose my question is (and forgive me if this is a terrifically > >> naive), how can one negotiate the go landscape of commonly used modules > >> to re-utilise, where possible, a more commonly named interface > >> implementing "Speak()" or convertible to provide "Speak()"? > >> > > > > Generally, when writing Go, the consumer of the object defines the > interface it requires. So rather than you looking for interfaces that might > exist in the wild, it's better to focus on your application and its needs. > If you have a component that uses the Speak method on objects then define > that as an interface that your component can accept. Any other user of your > component can see that interface is needed and provide a suitable object > that implements it or create a shim to adapt one. > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "golang-nuts" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/1fb8a3c4-b135-4ab1-b969-d6f4c239b7d9%40www.fastmail.com > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/C0D7D21F-AC72-40E3-9DB9-A8678886CDF3%40ix.netcom.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAMV2RqooGmOaXCGmriJ%2BDryYSSLNRmcrc9hfSTcWG-qPGAonxw%40mail.gmail.com.
