Thanks for writing this up, Katherine! On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Katherine Cox-Buday <katherine.cox-bu...@canonical.com> wrote: > go generate > https://golang.org/doc/go1.4#gogenerate > This is *very* powerful and could reduce the number of copy/paste snippets, > or unsafe reflection code we have to write. For those of you who are > familiar with the lisps, this is essentially macros. You write code that > examines Go expressions and does something. This code is triggered by > //go:generate command arg comments in the code. As a quick example, our > StringSet type could be generated and even expanded to encompass any type.
Cool. So generics via macros? > https://golang.org/doc/go1.4#internalpackages > Just what it sounds like. We can now hide implementation details from > importers. Probably more useful for the ancillary Juju packages as Juju Core > is probably not imported very much. Nice. This would be good for our various testing sub-packages, among other things. -eric -- Juju-dev mailing list Juju-dev@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju-dev
