On Monday, 17 March 2014 at 17:02:06 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
That is no wonder.
If you search the web for references, you will find that Rob
Pike very much dislikes OOP.
All right, but what is then the solution to encapsulate things? A
type switch breaks encapsulation: If you change some inner works
of component A you might have to extend the type switch in
Component B. I understand the argument that dynamic binding is a
high price to achieve this, but a type switch as in Go that
simply breaks encapsulation is not very convincing.
When I jumped into Go as of the language's announcement, was
due to the language influence of Oberon.
Do you have some affiliation with the ETHZ? Oberon didn't spread
much outside of it. I played with Oberon many years ago and I
also recognized similarities of it in Go. Just read about it
again to recap and it was striking to see how much the Oberon
WITH statement resembles a Go type switch. I guess Niklaus Wirth
would like Go ...
