WG and LWG model Go's generics and runtime boxing; a compilation from WG to LWG uses runtime type conversions and adaptor methods to support structural subtyping without monomorphisation or code generation.
InProceedings of the third ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP ’98), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, September 27-29, 1998.ACM, 301–312
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Welterweight Go: Boxing, Structural Subtyping, and Generics (Extended Version)
WG and LWG model Go's generics and runtime boxing; a compilation from WG to LWG uses runtime type conversions and adaptor methods to support structural subtyping without monomorphisation or code generation.