On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 11:52 AM, Chris Hopkins <cbehopk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, so having played with this. It seems that this is going to take some > judicious use of reflect if I'm to stand any chance of maintaining a > flexible API, which I really hoped to avoid. > I'm 99% sure that you don't have to use reflect at all. You only have to swap elements around, that's kind of what sort.Interface was made for. It already comes with implementations for slices of common datatypes and you can make a function that works on arbitrary slices with less than ten lines of reflect code. Like, I *really* don't understand your problem. > I had assumed that the point of interfaces was to avoid this. I guess from > a high level I don't see why a slice of type is really that different from > a type. But I have never written a compiler so I'm sure that it's way more > complex than it seems. :-) > > Thanks for the help. > Chris > > > On Thursday, 1 February 2018 00:42:04 UTC, simon place wrote: >> >> also notice, if you haven’t encountered it, this makes []interfaces a bit >> awkward to handle with ellipsis functions... >> >> https://play.golang.org/p/JWuc4jt2uSP >> >> what i do is this; >> >> https://play.golang.org/p/O9Q4K_vXlul >> >> but you will need a convert for all combinations of interfaces and >> ellipsis functions you have! >> >> from what i understand ellipsis functions are implemented simply as >> auto-magic slices, rather than expanded out, so the function doesn’t apply >> the interface wrapping like with individual parameters. >> >> -- > 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. > -- 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.
