Clearly that's a workaround though. Like how you can copy a slice of bytes
without calling copy by casting it to a string and then back to []bytes.
It gets the job done, but it's weird and not obvious.
On Wednesday, July 15, 2020 at 12:14:19 PM UTC-7, Axel Wagner wrote:
>
> Why not just accept slices only and expect the caller to add a `[:]`? It's
> not quite as ergonomic, but should have the same effect and we wouldn't
> need to add complexity to the design.
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 4:58 PM <hsoo...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Right now as I understand it, I would still have to write a different
>> generic function for different length arrays, or one that accepted slices.
>> as per:
>> // Accept slices of T
>> func someSliceFunc(type T)(s []T){ ... }
>> // Accept a 1 member array of T
>> func someArrayFunc(type T)(a [1]T){ ... }
>> ...
>> // For what ever number of specific length arrays you wish to support.
>> func someBiggerArrayFunc(type T)(a [???]T){ ... }
>>
>>
>> It would be nice to indicate the generic function accepts any length of
>> array as well as slices, something like:
>> // Accept any length of array or slice of T
>> func someFunc(type T)(a [...]T){ ... }
>>
>> Where the [...] indicates the function works with any length array or a
>> slice.
>>
>> Russell
>>
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