No, was hoping to use the interface (It's the only reason I defined it) to test if two items are equal. I guess I could enforce that you have to supply the equals function like the sort interface does. I was just hoping for more.
I'll have a rethink next time I have time. Thanks On Thursday, 1 February 2018 18:46:09 UTC, Axel Wagner wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 11:52 AM, Chris Hopkins <cbeho...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Yeah, so having played with this. It seems that this is going to take >> some judicious use of reflect if I'm to stand any chance of maintaining a >> flexible API, which I really hoped to avoid. >> > > I'm 99% sure that you don't have to use reflect at all. You only have to > swap elements around, that's kind of what sort.Interface was made for. It > already comes with implementations for slices of common datatypes and you > can make a function that works on arbitrary slices with less than ten lines > of reflect code. > > Like, I *really* don't understand your problem. > > >> I had assumed that the point of interfaces was to avoid this. I guess >> from a high level I don't see why a slice of type is really that different >> from a type. But I have never written a compiler so I'm sure that it's way >> more complex than it seems. :-) >> >> Thanks for the help. >> Chris >> >> >> On Thursday, 1 February 2018 00:42:04 UTC, simon place wrote: >>> >>> also notice, if you haven’t encountered it, this makes []interfaces a >>> bit awkward to handle with ellipsis functions... >>> >>> https://play.golang.org/p/JWuc4jt2uSP >>> >>> what i do is this; >>> >>> https://play.golang.org/p/O9Q4K_vXlul >>> >>> but you will need a convert for all combinations of interfaces and >>> ellipsis functions you have! >>> >>> from what i understand ellipsis functions are implemented simply as >>> auto-magic slices, rather than expanded out, so the function doesn’t apply >>> the interface wrapping like with individual parameters. >>> >>> -- >> 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...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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.
