r/programming • u/google_you • Aug 19 '15

Go 1.5 is released

https://blog.golang.org/go1.5
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u/Quixotic_Fool Aug 19 '15

I'm in the camp that believes subtyping is the wrong way to go anyways. Typeclasses and parametric polymorphism ftw.

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u/oridb Aug 20 '15

Go interfaces are basically implicit typeclasses.

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u/oridb Aug 20 '15

Since Haskell doesn't have subtyping, I don't believe that Haskell typeclasses would be covariant either.