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Re:Kotlin M7 by rst on Thursday March 20, 2014 @11:14AM (#7435998)
Actually, Go's fairly successful melding of static typing and duck-typed interfaces was a useful new trick. (Which doesn't completely excuse the "C++ tried that and it didn't work for them so WE WON'T" foot-dragging on other matters...)
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Re:Kotlin M7 by voidlogic on Thursday March 20, 2014 @11:35AM (#7436169)
>Go's fairly successful melding of static typing and duck-typed interfaces was a useful new trick

For those that don't know this feature is called structural typing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_type_system

Also, OCaml uses structural typing too.

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Re:Kotlin M7 by pjmlp on Thursday March 20, 2014 @11:51AM (#7436279)
No it was not, there are lots of languages that offer similar capabilities.

The fact that mainstream developers don't know it, does not make it something that Go designers invented.

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Re:Kotlin M7 by eropple on Thursday March 20, 2014 @11:55AM (#7436299)
OCaml already had structural typing. Scala does too.
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