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		amedvednikov on June 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I Don't Like Golang (2016) Only function bodies can changed. I don't think it's possible to modify structs on the fly. Maybe it is, I need to think about it/do research.

jsjolen on June 13, 2019 [–]

Don't worry, it pretty much isn't possible to do so without semantics which will basically make your program "drift" during run-time away from what a newly compiled program would do.

EDIT: Assuming inlining and call-by-value struct is a possibility.

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