On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 9:41 PM Aleksey Tulinov <aleksey.tuli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is Java-style inheritance. It isn't bad, but i think that > C++-style composition is somehow more in the spirit of Go. Strictly > personal opinion of course. Older proposal described constraints as > expressions, so to me it appears superior because I could potentially > write an expression I want without asking for more features to be > added into the compiler. > > Although i'm no longer sure if I understand what Go generics are > supposed to do. You have the point that it's probably for a specific > purpose, generic types something something, i don't know, but it > probably isn't supposed to do what C++ concepts can do. Maybe i'm just > spoiled. > > If this gets us to where we want to be - that's great, I'm happy if > you're happy. It just doesn't feel quite right and i feel like this > proposal could benefit from discussion on composition and stuff like > that.
There is no question that the older syntax was more powerful. And I suspect that your syntax is also more powerful. But we got extensive feedback that the approach was too complex. C++ and Go have very different tolerances for complexity. You raised the possibility of a constraint that permits either constraintA or constraintB. I think that supporting that kind of constraint would be more powerful than what the current design draft provides. But is it a necessary feature? How often does one want to use such a constraint? I've tried to outline what we need from generics in https://blog.golang.org/why-generics. I think that that describes the minimum set of required features for a viable language change. The possibility of alternative constraints is not in that set. Supporting everything we can think of is not a goal. It's not an inherently bad thing. But anything more powerful than the minimum set has to not make the language more complicated to understand. Within that context, I think it's a great idea to discuss composition or inheritance. If we can come up with something that is more powerful and less complex, that would be great. Ian -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAOyqgcUcob2oNMwnhuOSUR3NDaM_Cvo%3DaicOJcMhG5C%3DjskzjA%40mail.gmail.com.
