Because Min and Max are very good and simple indicators of whether the mechanism is generic enough to handle a fairly common idiom: small functions for similarly behaved items, say comparable items, which are annoying and repetitive to write for every data type which might support the operation (not to mention the fact that increases the surface area for errors).
It's also worth noting that if Min and Max can't be written in a generic system, it's likely that Sort can't, either. If the purpose of a generic system is to reduce repetitive code in a readable way, it's probably not doing its job very well if it can't do Min and Max. They're good canaries. - Dave > On May 31, 2019, at 9:06 AM, Robert Johnstone <r.w.johnst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm not sure that Min and Max need to be in the 80%. It's annoying to write > them repeatedly, but they are also very short. The place where I typically > miss generics is larger chunks of code, such as concurrency patterns. I'm > certain others are looking at datatypes. Why do Min and Max need to be in > the 80%? > > Robert > > > On Thursday, 30 May 2019 14:26:34 UTC-4, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > One of my guidelines for an acceptable generics proposal is that > people can write Min and Max. Your proposal admits that it doesn't > permit that. I think that is a problem. I'm fine with the general > idea of "do 80% of the job" but in practice people really do want to > write Min and Max. I think they are part of the 80% that needs to be > handled, not the 20% that can be omitted. > > -- > 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/e91e761e-92cd-452a-a387-e0741ebacd66%40googlegroups.com. > 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/A5807C0F-B951-45A1-9EBE-00629FE40B22%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
