We could regard the function as a method on the type(s), maybe?
Not sure if this is a good idea or not, especially since we don't have
multimethods (methods applied to multiple values) for ordinary values.
On Monday, June 22, 2020 at 1:53:56 PM UTC-4 Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:09 AM James L <jamesl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Have you read other thread which have been answered many times?
>
> In fairness, this idea is different, because the type comes first.
> Since the '<' character will always be the start of an expression, I
> think it may be unambiguous. I think this has been suggested before
> also, though I'm not sure where.
>
> I don't personally like this syntax because it seems to put the cart
> before the horse. In a function call, I would expect to see the Print
> function with a type argument int. This flips the order so that we
> see int first, then we see that we are talking about the Print
> function. Even if it could work syntactically, it seems to me to be
> less readable.
>
> The goal in any syntax suggestion should be more than just "this might
> work." It should be "this is more readable and easier to understand."
> And personally I don't think this specific suggestion meets that
> goal.
>
> Thanks for the comment, though.
>
> Ian
>
>
> > On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 12:46 AM, <redsto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I read the new generic draft. And I know F<T>,F[T],F《T》 is discarded. I
> think put the type paremeter in front of the function name may be better.
> No ambiguous and more readable code.
> >>
> >> func Print(type T)(s []T) {
> >>
> >> }
> >>
> >> Print(int)([]int{1, 2, 3})
> >>
> >> func <type T>Print(s []T) {
> >>
> >> }
> >>
> >> <int>Print([]int{1, 2, 3})
> >>
> >>
> >>
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