>> The version without generics is necessary to compare how well a particular generics approach improves the current language and code.
I am sorry but this is obviously that any useful feature (in the context of solving problems) improves the current language and code. Another question: how new (version of the) language will look cosmetically with this newly added feature. I found that the second question here more important then the first. It is obviously correct that the code with a generics (in appropriate place) would be more useful then other code. But here I undestand one interesting thing which states: Some obviously useful feature can significantly spoil the overall picture of language. For me this is very strange only because even a C language also has been improved after when it initially was introduced. In the years following the publication of K&R C, several features were added to the language, supported by compilers from AT&T and some other vendors. These included: - void <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void_type> functions (i.e., functions with no return value) - functions returning struct <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struct_(C_programming_language)> or union <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_(computer_science)> types (rather than pointers) - assignment <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_(computer_science)> for struct data types - enumerated types <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerated_type> C99 introduced several new features, including inline functions <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_function>, several new data types <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_type> (including long long int and a complex type to represent complex numbers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_number>), variable-length arrays <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-length_array> and flexible array members <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member>, improved support for IEEE 754 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754> floating point, support for variadic macros <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variadic_macro> (macros of variable arity <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arity>), and support for one-line comments beginning with // The C11 standard adds numerous new features to C and the library, including type generic macros, anonymous structures, improved Unicode support, atomic operations, multi-threading, and bounds-checked functions. P.S. I guess I should think that this is very bad, because my first acquaintance with the language began with the ZX-Spetrum and continued with the Borland Turbo C. Indeed, the C language is now looks much worse cosmetically than before. But should I regret it? Maybe... -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
