Sorry, it is confusing… because then someone chimes in and says ‘no’ to
operator overloading which would make that impossible, which makes the example
impossible for arbitrary X.
I guess I don’t understand the problem with using “method names” e.g. Less() in
generic code - yes it is a little more verbose - but it avoids the traditional
problems with operator overloading leading to obtuse code.
> On Oct 18, 2018, at 2:28 PM, Burak Serdar <bser...@ieee.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 1:22 PM robert engels <reng...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>
>> Can you explain this a bit more, I must be missing something. Using the
>> example:
>>
>> func F(a,b type T like(int,X)) {
>> if a<b {
>> ...
>> }
>> }
>>
>> How do you pass a struct to F because < isn’t valid on structs ???
>
> You missed the part that said "provided X is a type that supports <".
> This was a hypothetical case where we could define < for X.
>
>
>>
>> Which is why I proposed that < maps to Less() and then the primitives
>> simplicity implement these various methods, and user defined structs MIGHT.
>>
>> That way you write the code using Less(), and it works with primitives as
>> well.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Oct 18, 2018, at 2:13 PM, bjorn.de.me...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't think this is fear, but rather KISS. The reason many people dislike
>>> contracts from the official proposal is that they are complex and don't
>>> have a very Go-like syntax.
>>>
>>> I like this like syntax because I feel it is more Go-like, but also because
>>> it solves the operator problem rather elegantly and would allow us to unify
>>> the strings and bytes packages into one generic package.
>>>
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