Lesson 22. Go’s got no class

After reading lesson 22, you’ll be able to

  • Write methods that provide behavior to structured data
  • Apply principles of object-oriented design

Go isn’t like classical languages. It has no classes and no objects, and it omits features like inheritance. Yet Go still provides what you need to apply ideas from object-oriented design. This lesson explores the combination of structures with methods.

Consider this

Synergy is a buzzword commonly heard in entrepreneurial circles. It means “greater than the sum of its parts.” The Go language has types, methods on types, and structures. Together, these provide much of the functionality that classes do for other languages, without needing to introduce a new concept ...

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