Hi all, There appear to be a lot of different paths to take as far as generics and templates go (pun intended). Many of you I am sure have more experience and have thought deeper about contracts and templates than I ever will. Also, I am sure all experienced users and programmers know the joys and pains of templates and generics. For example, as a user of cuda on linux, I know that templates are the reason I need to install a legacy version of gcc in order to get the current nvidia cuda examples to compile on new fedora installations. Trying to force a compile with the latest gcc causes a tsunami of errors, which I think is do to templates, generics, or other such foolishness. And yet we all are loathe to create repeat code which is hard to avoid without templates.
As Lucio said : *I think that means (a) that there could be many solutions or approaches, only a few of them really palatable and we'll be lucky if we hit on the best of those in the first few iterations, but this process is the best way to reach something aesthetically pleasing to start with; (b) that Go may undergo many alterations in the quest to deal Generics that will force a deviation from the Go1 promise which, after all, should not be made to apply to Go2 anyway.* So what do? One possibility is that the community could start implementing templates as a pre-compile step, a step which generates go source code that is currently compliant template free go code. Then various template flavors could be tested out in the wild. Some could be as simple and transparent as a text substitution syntax, on up to everything imagined in this thread. And let's face it. Templates, operator overloading, and talk of generics has swirled around golang since its inception. Separating the template/generic/operational overload step from the core language via a pre-compile step is one way to get the ball rolling. Risks? Yes, bifurcation of the language I guess, but on the other hand the core of go remains pure. Thoughts anyone? -- 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.
