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Re:Go and Simplicity Debt Redux by brandonbloom on Monday June 19, 2017 @12:06PM (#14587970)
Yup! Type assertions work this way too. It's a much nicer design than traditional casts.
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Re:Go and Simplicity Debt Redux by frou_dh on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @08:02AM (#14593848)
Check this out. With this tool, the type switch gets you exhaustiveness checks for hokey package-private sum-types in Go :)

https://github.com/BurntSushi/go-sumtype

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