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		wtetzner on June 6, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A year with Go > A single line can invoke arbitrary behaviour. Isn't that true of any language with even the simplest mechanism for abstraction? How about this go code? `doStuff(1, 2)` It could "update some rows in a database, write a file, or make an HTTP request."

nickysielicki on June 6, 2015 [–]

I think that's fundementally different, you know you're calling a function there.

An example in golang would be something like:

    type foo struct {
        a    string
        b    int
        c    *someOtherStruct
    }
    var blah = foo{"example", 42, nil}
    blah.b = someMagicVariable

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