Well, C has generics since C11.
reply> From my perspective, Go added methods primarily so that you can use them in combination with interfaces.
replyThey also give you a limited form of overloading. Without methods or overloading, you end up in the situation that C and Scheme are in where every operation on a data structure has to redundantly have the data structure in its name like:
list_clear(my_list);
queue_clear(my_queue);
map_clear(my_map);In Go you would methods for that: my_list.Clear(), my_queue.Clear() and my_map.Clear(). Now you can define a Clearer interface, which has only the Clear method. That allows you to write a function clearAndLog(item Clearer) and it will work with the list, queue and map.
replyWhat was the reason for interfaces having to work at runtime?
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