Codegen can do 100% of what any compiler can do. On Sun, Aug 27, 2017, 14:54 <prades.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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. > > It's an interesting fact that when go gen was introduced, proponents of go > gen on this very forum were swearing that it wasn't designed to be a > solution for generics. > > Code gen to make up for a lack of a feature in a type system will always > be like building an half baked language on top of another. Code generation > will never replace polymorphism at compile time. > > -- > 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. > -- -j -- 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.
