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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:23:45 -0800
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From: roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Go
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the thing i think i'd miss most moving from limbo
is discriminated unions. what would a go-friendly
way of describing, say, a 9p message look like?

i suppose you could just type-switch, but then
you still lose the nice statically declared aspect of an
algebraic type.