TL;DR
Question to people who played with new generics pipeline extensively:
How often do we actually need to specify types during invocation? Can they
*always* be deduced? If not, maybe just parameters need to be type casted
appropriately?
Long story (just thoughts of how I got there)
So, after going through draft, and seeing this Attack Of The Braces - both
in the draft and outside - I was thinking about maybe a slightly better way
to declare functions
1. Using decorator like $ or @, so type keyword could be dropped. Something
like func Min(a,b $T) $T {...} , or `func Some(a $T1, b $T2) ($T3, error)`
will automatically use generic because of the decorator $. But then
invocation and contracting becomes a bit funny. `result := Min$int(1,3)`
and `result, err := Some$(int, string)(1, "no")`
Still, might be better for just readability (IMHO, YMMV)
2. Then I thought what if decorator on existing interface would make it
treated as generic contract,
type Comparable interface {
type int, float...
}
func Min(a, b $Comparable) $Comparable {
// ...
}
, but then - Why do we even need generic on a function if we can just
specify contract/interface as type of the parameters?... Like func Min(a,
b Comparable) Comparable { /* ... */ } does not need to do anything
"special"
3. Shift declaration before func or before name... (I think someone said
something about not liking traincars in front of the steamer, but I
actually like it)
(type T Comparable) func Min(a, b T) T {...}
or
func(type T Comparable) Min(a,b T) T {...}
and invocation becomes kind of calling something on a type
result := int.Min(1, 2)
or
result, err := (int, error).Some(2, "yes")
But then I thought... Why bother? How often it cannot be deduced at the
invocation site what types this was called with? And even if the do, can
these places be casted just like a normal cast to some type? So it becomes
result, err := Some(int('A'), string(make([]byte,0)))
when needed.
Thanks,
Andrey
PS.
3 - Another thought is to allow to use a block after type keyword, but I
think it might conflict heavily with existing code
type (
type T Something
type T2 OtherType
) {
func SomeFunc(a,b T) T2 {
// ...
}
}
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