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Overriding methods in Golang

Golang

The following program:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
)

type Sounder interface {
	  Sound()
}

// base
type Animal struct {
	  Sounder
}

func (a Animal) Sound() {
	  fmt.Println("Pruttel")
}

// 'inherit'
type Duck struct {
	  Animal
}

// override
func (d Duck) Sound() {
    fmt.Println("Quaeck!")
}

func main() {
    // speak to interfaces not implementations
    var animal Sounder = Animal{}
    animal.Sound()

    var duck Sounder = Duck{}
    duck.Sound()
}

Yields this output:

Pruttel
Quaeck!

Try it out on the Golang playground.