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Re:More information on Google's new web language, Dash by Ezku on Saturday September 10, 2011 @04:17AM (#2981140)
Not to detract from your point of vastly different things, but you picked a bad example. You add a method to the prototype:

    File::close = ->
Et voilà, all Files are closeable.
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Re:More information on Google's new web language, Dash by phoboslab on Saturday September 10, 2011 @09:07AM (#2981508)
Nice, I didn't know that CoffeeScript has a shorthand for .prototype.

So, to revise my point: with "proper" classes (i.e. Java or C++) this wouldn't be possible, or at least more complicated and not the way to do things. Classes are not the ultimate solution and it's a good thing that Go tries a different approach to OOP.

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