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		jkn on March 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go is amazing, period. Couldn't you use an empty interface to store arbitrary values? From the tutorial: Every type implements the empty interface, which makes it useful for things like containers. Unions are on the roadmap: http://golang.org/doc/devel/roadmap.html but it's a list of ideas rather than features promised.

JulianMorrison on March 19, 2012 [–]

C people: think of interface {} as roughly the same as void*, except that values pointed to preserve information about their type which can be extracted and used later.

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