Go-internals: Chapter 2, “Interfaces” released
It surprised me how go's interfaces have non-trivial limitations. What lately bit me is illustrated in the following snippet: the call to doSomething() is just not possible in Go:<p><pre><code>  package main

  import "fmt"

  type S struct {
        i int
  }

  func (s *S) foo() {
        s.i++
        fmt.Println(s.i)
  }

  type Sarr []S

  type I interface {
        foo()
  }

  func doSomething(arg []I) {
        arg[0].foo()
  }

  func main() {
        arr := Sarr{S{i: 1}, S{i: 2}, S{i: 3}}
        arr[1].foo()

        doSomething(arr)
  }
</code></pre>
I understand why the current implementation of Go doesn't work that way, and that the meta-reason for this not being implemented is the "we don't want generics" attitude, since it would effectively require 2 different compilations of doSomething(), one which accepts a slice of interfaces, which are a (pointer,type) tuple, and one which accepts an slice of this specific struct which happens to actually implement the I interface, and that's a taboo, but come on... it just weakens the idea of interfaces. It could have been done as a compile-time work-around which constructs the slice-of-interfaces argument on-the-fly before calling the function - it wouldn't have been the only magical thing in Go.