How would new syntax be better than a built-in function with exactly the
semantics you are after and shorter to type to boot?
On 23 Oct 2016 01:50, "Nate Finch" <nate.fi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd much rather have syntax that just works rather than another built-in
> function.
>
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016, 6:17 PM roger peppe <rogpe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> When I need to do this, I find it's only a very minor annoyance to define:
>>
>> func newInt(i int) { return &i }
>>
>> If Go ever got generics, this would probably be trivial to write
>> generically, for example:
>>
>> func Ref[T](x T) *T { return &x }
>>
>> I don't think I'd object if we added a new builtin function called "ref"
>> with the above semantics. It worked pretty well in Limbo as an operator.
>>
>> On 21 Oct 2016 22:44, "Nate Finch" <nate.fi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps regular was the wrong choice of phrasing. From an end-user's
>> perspective, it makes the language more consistent, rather than having
>> &T{v} work for some of the more complex values of T, but not for the more
>> simple values of T.
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 3:59 PM Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 9:20 PM Nate Finch <nate.fi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > And, I would argue, it actually makes the language slightly more
>> regular, since now &T{v} works for just about everything (possibly
>> everything?).
>>
>> Taking the address of an addressable thing is the regular proper. Taking
>> address of a non-addressable things, even though practical, is syntactic
>> sugar. Enlarging the surface of the later irregularity cannot make anything
>> more regular.
>>
>> --
>>
>> -j
>>
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