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Discussion on: The Problem with Interfaces, and how Go Fixed it

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ddekany • Edited

My point didn't go though. I wasn't talking about uncaught mistakes. My concern is about how self documenting the code will be, and for what was that sacrificed. Let me try again. If a type T has a set of functions associated that satisfy the I interface, and also they behave as described in the documentation of I, then most certainly the author of T (or of the functions) has deliberately "implemented" the I interface there. Right? I mean, just how often does such thing happen by chance? If almost never, then why do the Go designers want us to not state that intent (I'm implementing I) in the language? What's the actual, practical, every day use case for "implementing without stating it"? Surely it's not that Go developers often get extremely lucky and so can avoid adapters.