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Re:The Updated Draft Design for Go 2 Contracts by apta on Saturday July 27, 2019 @10:17PM (#20545503)
They want to avoid the term "generics" or "traits", same as how they avoided the word "exception" when they implemented "panic". golang likes to reinvent the wheel and call it something else just for the sake of it.
Re:The Updated Draft Design for Go 2 Contracts by Animats on Sunday July 28, 2019 @04:01AM (#20546384)
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."