On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 9:46 AM 'Richard Oudkerk' via golang-nuts
<golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Another way to bridge the gap between builtin and custom types could be to
> have a package op that has functions that delegate to either an operator or a
> method. Then you could write generic functions like
>
> func Min[type T op.Lessable](a, b T) T {
> if op.Less(a, b) {
> return b
> }
> return a
> }
...
Indeed, and quite a while ago I sketched out a proposal along those
lines: https://gist.github.com/pat42smith/ed63aca983d4ba14fdfa320296211f40
. There was very little
reaction to that proposal.
> I don't think op.Lessable is expressible with the latest proposal though.
Also true, so this almost certainly won't fly.
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