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Go doesn't require an explicit class definition as Java, C++, C#, etc do.  Instead, a "class" is implicitly defined by providing a set of "methods" which operate on a common type.  The type may be a struct or any other user-defined type.  For example:

type Integer int;
func (i *Integer) String() string {
    return strconv.itoa(i)
}

... is analogous to:

class Integer {
    public int i;
    public String toString() { return Integer.toString(i); }
}

... in Java.



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