> Generics are useful except when their syntax becomes cryptic I agree, are you referring to anything specific?
Dňa štvrtok, 30. mája 2019 19:29:09 UTC+2 L Godioleskky napísal(-a): > > > > On Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 1:24:55 PM UTC-4, L Godioleskky wrote: >> >> one of the annoying things you have to deal with as a team member is >> being assigned an "update" of code written by someone who no longer works >> for the team. What makes this annoying is possibility of running into code >> sections that contain "crytic" statements that require lots of effort to >> understand. After looking at the link you provided my input, based on >> dealing with cryptic C++ is: Go should not allow cryptic syntax. >> > Generics are useful except when their syntax becomes cryptic > > >> w >> >> On Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 12:29:03 PM UTC-4, Michal Strba wrote: >>> >>> Hi Gophers! :) >>> >>> I've been thinking about generics in Go 2 ever since the original >>> contracts proposal and few days ago, ideas finally clicked. One of the main >>> things about this proposal is that it deliberately omits the ability to >>> restrict the set of types a function can work with. This is a limitation, >>> but I hope to convince you that we can still do a vast majority of the >>> things we were missing, when we were missing generics. >>> >>> I'd love to share my proposal with you and engage in a good faith >>> conversation. >>> >>> Link to the proposal. >>> <https://gist.github.com/faiface/e5f035f46e88e96231c670abf8cab63f> >>> >>> Here's what the proposal covers: >>> >>> 1. Syntax of a new gen keyword. >>> 2. Generic functions. >>> 3. Unnamed generic arguments (a.k.a. a way to gve a type to the built-in >>> new function). >>> 4. Semantics of generic values (ability to use them as map keys, ...). >>> 5. Generic array lengths. >>> 6. Reflection and interface{}. >>> 7. Generic types (with two examples: List and Matrix). >>> 8. Generic methods and their limitations due to reflection. >>> 9. Generic interfaces. >>> 10. List of things this proposal can't do. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> faiface >>> >> -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/042a2594-1a00-43e9-8866-86c362d9298b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
