I think people are misunderstanding my equal footing need. I don’t mean for all applications, I mean for a application.
Here’s another example. You have a enterprise payroll application. You have a model package. You have model.Employee. Having to use model.Employee throughout the application is noise. Everyone working on the application knows that Employee means model.Employee. It is part of the language (dsl in a way) for that application. > On Dec 3, 2018, at 5:31 AM, Bakul Shah <ba...@bitblocks.com> wrote: > >> On Dec 2, 2018, at 11:39 PM, robert engels <reng...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >> >> what I’m really trying to convey is that “Fixed” is a top-level type, on >> equal footing with ‘string’. > > a) it is *not* on equal footing with the built in types of Go. > b) it can't be, as "Fixed" by itself not well defined. The > Fixed type in your pkg assumes a specific scale factor, > which may not be right for everyone. In general you'd have > to allow specifying the fractional parr. For example, PL/I > provides > FIXED BINARY(number of bits, fractional bits) & > FIXED DECIMAL(number of digits, fractional digits) > for this purpose. The Fixed type in your pkg is *roughly* > equivalent to FIXED DECIMAL(19,7). Fixed types have a > very limited use so it wouldn't make sense to add them to > a general purpose language such as Go. > > On dot imports. It is a bad idea. Everyone with far more > experience than you or I have said the same thing and given > their reasons. I suspect you will come around their PoV over > time! > > -- > 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.
