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A comment on Ergo: Erlang-inspired event driven actor framework in Go. Parent comment
> Why a function that takes an Actor instead of each Actor being a type that implements a receive function?
That function is a method with receiver type `Actor` - IE `Actor` implements this HandleMessage function.
Granted it is exactly equivalent to ``` func HandleMessage(a *Actor, from gen.PID, message any) error { ... } ```
But I'm happy sticking with composition over inheritance
We aren’t building a ui framework it’s an actor. That’s a very small interface already.
> Why a function that takes an Actor instead of each Actor being a type that implements a receive function?
That function is a method with receiver type `Actor` - IE `Actor` implements this HandleMessage function.
Granted it is exactly equivalent to ``` func HandleMessage(a *Actor, from gen.PID, message any) error { ... } ```
But I'm happy sticking with composition over inheritance