>... and boilerplate to satisfy the interfaces. Go actually provides facilities for embedding types which helps remove some of the unnecessary boilerplate from

>... and boilerplate to satisfy the interfaces. Go actually provides facilities for embedding types which helps remove some of the unnecessary boilerplate from satisfying an interface.[1] Through embedding you can leverage the implementation of an existing type to satisfy an interface w/o writing methods to dispatch to that underlying type. [1]: http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#embedding http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#embedding