Actually, the example I was referring to (see my comment elsewhere in the thread) is copied directly from the Go documentation here: http://golang.org/pkg/sort/

Actually, the example I was referring to (see my comment elsewhere in the thread) is copied directly from the Go documentation here: http://golang.org/pkg/sort/ http://golang.org/pkg/sort/ Composition is great. It does not solve the same problem as generics. The reason people can't seem to "get" the idea of statically typed languages without generics is because static typing without parametric polymorphism is a painful experience. I'm not opposed to the idea of finding some balance between static and dynamic typing -- Clojure type annotations seem interesting -- it's just that I don't like the way Go does it.