[coldtea]

>Most OOP languages would raise an exception / print runtime error (in the case of JIT dynamic languages) or downright crash if you tried to access methods or properties of a nil / null / whatever type.

Most OO languages wont report an interface as non null if its value is null. Go will.

[laumars]

Indeed - I wasn't defending Go's behavior here. I was just replying to your question about whether it is an edge case or not. Since the code would be broken in any OOP language I do consider this to be an edge case. But that doesn't mean I like nor would defend Go's nil type system.