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Re:Seven years of Go by aikah on Thursday November 10, 2016 @04:33PM (#12924611)
> If you're doing that all over the place, you're doing it wrong. I've never seen Go code that looks like that in real projects.

Yet it is there in the language. Why is that? how do you justify adding this to a statically typed language?

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Re:Seven years of Go by eloff on Thursday November 10, 2016 @05:07PM (#12924939)
Your position is that statically typed languages shouldn't have reflection? I think that's a pretty fringe position to take that not many programmers would agree on. The JVM and .NET static typed languages have reflection, C++ will (hopefully) get reflection one of these days soon as it's been talked about for a while. Even rust has reflection. I think statically typed languages without reflection are the exception rather than the norm.
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