On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Patrick Smith <pat42sm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> First, please consider requiring the 'type' keyword in definitions of
> methods on generic types:
>
> func (x Foo(type T)) method() {}
>
> This adds a small amount of verbiage, but makes the intent crystal clear. It
> also allows for easy extension of the syntax if some far future version of
> the language does allow adding methods to template instantiations.

Interesting idea, but even if we adopt specialization it seems to me
that an ordinary non-specialized method is the normal case, and a
method specialized to a specific type is the unusual case.  We should
try to avoid making the normal case be more verbose.

Ian

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