mhh: >Why would you put generics on a method ? I.e.: I could have a container type and a element type to be contained.
myStack.push(myElement) mhh: >type Final notFinal<int, string> Maybe it is a good idea to require an intermediate type like that, to keep things readable. mhh: > none of this is as powerful as code gen. A lot of people consider code gen a second class solution when compared to a more traditional generics implementation. I don't think so. Code generation can be very effective. No major concerns about indecipherable error messages. When in doubt you can inspect the generated code to understand exactly what is the problem. Axel, I am very confident that no solution will be incorporated to Go before deep thinking about all it's implications. Your points will be considered, for sure. Jesper: > if you don't get the above, you wouldn't have been able to pass the first course at my university back in the day (around 2000). Generics user here, since Bjarne Stroustrup's CFront, the very first C++ compiler. Whenever you use complex idioms you reduce the amount of people able to understand your code and able to mantain it. The simpler the code, the more people can help you. Abuse of generics is a common source of headaches in C++ code. I saw seasoned developers fighting for hours or days to convince the compiler to grasp new code. Due to the complexity explosion things get out of control fast. For what? Just to throw that code away as soon as someone else needs to mantain it. Write-only code. Been there, done that. I learned it the hard way. Today if you see a code of mine you surely will say I learned to program yesterday. That's exactly the way I like. People are able to read my code like it was a comic book. No secrets, no head scratching. I am happy, my employer is happy, my coworkers are happy. A lot of developers can jump to my project if the need/oportunity arises. Simplicity is the single most important Go asset in my opinion, due to the broader audience it brings. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
