> > I think everybody here is aware that some people really want generics and > that generics would probably be useful for everybody. Instead of restating > that why not share what you think about this version of Go generics? > > IMO this is not a proven statement. One of the things that for me I like about Go is that one can read code and reason about its behaviour to a reasonable extent. In my very limited experience generics would make it considerably more difficult to reason about exactly what a piece of code will do. While generics would allow some problems to be expressed in a simpler fashion, I'm not convinced that that would produce a more comprehensible code-base. I really worry they would just facilitate lazy programming where people save a few keystrokes at the expense of: "You too need a brain the size of a planet, like mine, to understand this."
Maybe this is unfounded, but I'm far from convinced that generics would make my experience of Go better. I'm really thinking here of, are we really sure they would make large unfamiliar codebases more comprehensible? Every feature of a language can be abused, so are they worth the abuse that they would allow? Chris -- 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.
