Generics is polymorphism, though; actually, it's a kind of polymorphism called parametric polymorphism. It's program behavior that doesn't depend on the types of the data it uses. It's useful for algorithms for types that contain variable types. There are numerous slice, map, and chan utility functions, for example, which aren't possible for users to make in Go.
On Friday, March 24, 2017 at 12:16:24 PM UTC-7, Rob 'Commander' Pike wrote: > > Algorithms are not helped by generic types as much as by polymorphism, a > related but distinct subject. > > -rob > > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Mandolyte <ceci...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> The recent survey reveled that generics was thing that would improve Go >> the most. But at 16%, the responses were rather spread out and only 1/3 >> seemed to think that Go needed any improvement at all - see link #1. I >> think most will concede that generics would help development of algorithms, >> libraries, and frameworks. So in the spirit of friendly rivalry, here is a >> list of algorithms developed for Swift: >> >> https://github.com/raywenderlich/swift-algorithm-club >> >> As you might guess, it is chock-full of generics. Yeah, I'm a little >> envious. :-) enjoy... >> >> >> >> #1 https://blog.golang.org/survey2016-results >> >> -- >> 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...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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.
