You'd also have to disallow null as a value for any of these boxed types. It's disconcerting and astonishing to check for true / false and get a NPE, to say th

You'd also have to disallow null as a value for any of these boxed types. It's disconcerting and astonishing to check for true / false and get a NPE, to say the least. One nice thing about Go is that strings are values and cannot be null.