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I think the point is that duck-typing in Ruby is less of a feature and more of an inevitability due to its dynamic RTTI nature. Compare that to duck-typing in

I think the point is that duck-typing in Ruby is less of a feature and more of an inevitability due to its dynamic RTTI nature. Compare that to duck-typing in Go where it was a very deliberate design decision.

djur 12y ago
Duck typing generally refers exclusively to runtime type checking (i.e. dynamically-typed languages). What Go does is structural typing.
- marvy 12y ago
  I disagree. C++ templates for instance are also duck-typed, but they act at compile time, not run time.