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		coolsunglasses on April 27, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go's power is in emergent behavior There are nicer ways to do structural typing. Here's just one example: I have a post here of how you can partially define structure to be filled in by the consumer of the API: http://bitemyapp.com/posts/2014-04-11-aeson-and-user-created... Can't do this without polymorphism and higher-kinded types.

biscarch on April 27, 2014 [–]

I'm using this approach for a library that is currently in development. It works very well.

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