On Fri, Aug 26, 2016, 17:45 T L <tapir....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> package main
>
> type Age int
>
> func main() {
> var ages = []Age{17, 18, 19}
> var ints = ([]int)(ages) // error: cannot convert ages (type []Age) to
> type []int
> _ = ints
> }
>
Because Go is a type safe language. []T and []T2 have different element
types and different underlying types, so in the general case the conversion
would not be type safe. Also, again in the general case, the memory layout
of the backing arrays of []T and []T2 are not the same.
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-j
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