The interface type that specifies zero methods is known as the empty interface.
In most object-oriented languages, a built-in base class, often named object, is the superclass for all other classes. Go, having no inheritance, doesn’t have such a superclass. What it does have is an empty interface with no methods: interface{}. Since every type implements all 0 of the empty interface’s methods, and since interfaces are implicitly implemented, every type fulfills the contract of the empty interface
```
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
var i interface{}
describe(i)
i = 42
describe(i)
i = "hello"
describe(i)
}
func describe(i interface{}) {
fmt.Printf("(%v, %T)\n", i, i)
}
```
To convert an interface variable to an explicit type, you use.(TYPE)