Month: November 2009

  • Go Interface Values

    While interface values in Go are flexible, they do have confusing aspects. An interface value—e.g., a variable of an interface type— holds a value of some other type. The interface type is known as the static type, since that is the type that the compiler sees at compile type. The other type, which is only…

  • Go Interfaces

    One of the interesting aspects of the Go language is interface objects. In Go, the word interface is overloaded to mean several different things. Every type has an interface, which is the set of methods defined for that type. This bit of code defines a struct type S with one field, and defines two methods…

  • Go Channels

    Since the first thing I liked about Go is channels, I’ll talk some more about them. IA channel can transmit a value of a specific type. That is, a channel value of type chan T can transmit any value of type T. This is not much of a restriction, as the type interface {} can…

  • Go

    I heard about the Go programming language in May 2008 and was immediately interested. I spent a couple of weeks writing a preliminary gcc frontend for Go. I’ve been working on it ever since, with just a few interruptions here and there. It’s a relief that this work is finally out there. Both the language…

  • Insurance

    Insurance works if You have a sufficiently large population of people at risk of some loss. Otherwise, the insurance company can’t get started, since it can’t earn enough in fees to pay off the loss when it happens. The loss is large enough that most people are unable or unwilling to take a chance on…