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		blackRust on June 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Golang 1.4 Internal Packages The way ML modules works seems to me like a much better deal: with interfaces and implementations. There's a proposal to have something similar done to Haskell. [1] http://plv.mpi-sws.org/backpack/

pjmlp on June 25, 2014 | [–]

Just like most module based languages.

What ML modules have as extra advantage over other module systems, is that they also exist as types.

mratzloff on June 25, 2014 | [–]

In Go you can expose an interface, and often in the standard library they do.

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