> On Apr 25, 2022, at 4:11 PM, Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Then you don't think creative enough. Think about (de)serialization code for
> binary data which needs to use the correct size. If done correctly this can
> very well be handled with a generic.
>
Oh yes that’s right. I guess I would need some real examples of a function that
used type information and could suffer a failure by the compiler assuming the
wrong type from a constant like “1”. If you were deserializing you would
probably be passing in a very particular type and not some ambiguous thing like
a number literal.
Having said that there should be type restrictions for Integer, Real, Boolean
and String (maybe Char) etc… Right now only class, record and interface are
supported.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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