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  Robert Griesemer<br>
  9 October 2023
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  <p>This is the blog version of my talk on type inference at GopherCon 2023 in San Diego,

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What is type inference?

Wikipedia defines type inference as follows:

Type inference is the ability to automatically deduce, either partially or fully, the type of an expression at compile time. The compiler is often able to infer the type of a variable or the type signature of a function, without explicit type annotations having been given.

The key phrase here is “automatically deduce &...

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