On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 3:13 AM alanfo <alan.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 12:22:15 AM UTC+1, Patrick Smith wrote: >> >> If overloading [] were disallowed, how would one write a generic function >> taking a single argument of type either []int or a user-defined type with >> similar behavior, and returning the sum of the elements? Sort of the >> marriage of these two functions: >> > > I'm wobbling a bit on disallowing the overloading of the indexation > operator following something Eric said in response to that. > > However, as long as the proposal includes the ability to overload > conversions as well as operators (another point I made earlier), the > example you gave could be dealt with by implementing a conversion to []int > so you could then use all the latter's properties to code a common function. >
If I understand correctly, you would make a copy of the entire list in order to be able to iterate over it? This seems inefficient. -- 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.
