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Go Data Structures: Interfaces (2009)

• frou_dh 14y ago
  FWIW, I gather that contemporary Go docs have stopped using the phrase "duck typing" because it has too much of a dynamic connotation to convey what Go in fact does ("structural typing").
  • enneff 14y ago
    Correct. An io.Reader doesn't just look and sound like a Reader. It _is_ a reader.
    • marshray 14y ago
      If it looks like duck typing, and it sounds like duck typing, ... that's good enough for duck typing.