On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 1:07 AM Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not supposed to be anything special whatsoever. Just like number
> zero or an empty set is not some kind of an exception. It's just you
> cannot have any reasonable set theory without it.
>
I think it's fair to say that `interface{}` is somewhat special in practice
because it acts as an escape hatch from the type system when necessary. No
other interface is capable of being satisfied by values of all types. I
assume that the `error` interface is pre-declared because it's a very
common interface used across almost all Go code. If `interface{}` is to
become even more common than it is thanks to generics, I think it could be
reasonable to follow the same thinking.
Go programmers do avoid casting because Go has no casting. That word
> or its stem doesn't even appear in the language specs.
>
Something tells me you knew Carla was referring to type assertions.
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