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		stevedonovan on March 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Use Go Interfaces Compile-time duck typing :) To be fair, C++ templates have a similar problem. Rust nails this one with traits, I think.

pjmlp on March 20, 2018 [–]

C++17 has mechanism to validate if a type implements a certain "interface" (pure virtual base class) via type traits, if constexpr and enable_if, and hopefully with concepts a solution similar to traits will then be possible (already available on gcc).

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