Opportunity

[Peter Alexander]

On Tuesday, 9 April 2013 at 08:17:40 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> I have yet to find anyone who can tell me why Go must have 
> generics with
> a cogent argument that makes sense to me. OK so C++ has 
> generics;
> templates, how wonderful. Java has generics, and type erasure, 
> great.
> Scala, Ceylon and Kotlin have huge infrastructure to reify 
> generics on a
> platform with unreified generics. At least C# got that right. 
> Why is the
> Go idea of total separation of state and behaviour not a good
> experiment, after all JavaScript, Python, etc. have shown this 
> works
> even without static type checking.

+1!

Types are not the only way bind data and behaviour, nor is 
binding necessary at all.