On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 6:39 PM Will Faught <w...@willfaught.com> wrote: > > Currently, if I understand correctly, there's no expression for the zero > value for a type variable:
Thanks for the note. There is some discussion of this at https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/design/43651-type-parameters.md#the-zero-value . > Why not allow nil to be used as the zero value for type variables, to fill > this gap? We could do that. The main concern is that "nil" is already overloaded, and people new to Go are frequently confused by it. See the FAQ entry https://go.dev/doc/faq#nil_error . Adding more uses of nil will increase the potential for confusion. Ian -- 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/CAOyqgcWXRNfUNCk8E_7cU9dQW-vwNP4%2BBV2Q5VR6a2k4fjQrcA%40mail.gmail.com.
