On Wed, 2020-07-15 at 14:36 -0700, Randall O'Reilly wrote: > And the use of [ ] in map is more semantically associated with its > conventional use as an element accessor in arrays / slices, not with > some more general kind of type parameter.
The [] syntax can be viewed as an indexing operation perfectly well in the context of generics; a generic function or type is a map of implementations or types and so the [] syntax is a type index into that map, just as map[T1]T2 is a type index into the builtin generic map type. This is not mental stretch. -- 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/abe84ff5abefe2815137bea9cb83eb9e8d5fdafb.camel%40kortschak.io.
