On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 8:53 AM Robert Engels <reng...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Oct 18, 2018, at 9:41 AM, Burak Serdar <bser...@ieee.org> wrote:
> >
> > If X is a struct type, any type implementing all the methods of X and
> >    containing all the fields of X can be substituted
>
> The above is the problem. This almost certainly requires dynamic access to 
> fields, essentially making all method and field access dynamic, and I don’t 
> think the Go performance hounds will go for it. I am not even certain it can 
> be done without runtime reflection.
>
> But still a developer having to create a Bar with all of the exported methods 
> and fields of Foo seems daunting.

That is not intended for copy paste. That is intended for the following case:

type S struct {
   blah...
}

func (s S) F() { ... }


func W(in like S) {
}

type K struct {
 S
}


You can call W(K{})

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