(Re-adding list in here with Bakul's okay.) 2018-02-22 12:27 GMT-08:00 Bakul Shah <ba...@bitblocks.com>: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 12:02:35 -0800 "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.od...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> It's been some time since I really contributed much of anything to the >> project (sorry!), but after 8 years, I'm finally writing Go outside of >> the project itself (and outside of porting efforts). I was lamenting >> to some coworkers about the lack of a comparable feature to C's >> "malloc idiom" and they suggested I write an experience report on it. >> I wrote the bulk of the article a month ago, but finally put in some >> finishing touches and published. > > I still run FreeBSD at home and test any go programs I write > on it as well as MacOS (and sometime on plan9)! But FreeBSD > support seems to be falling further and further behind.
I'm aware of some strange crash, but I don't have any FreeBSD systems anymore to investigate. Are there other areas that FreeBSD is lagging in? (Maybe tangent should go to separate thread :)) >> For whatever it's worth (probably not much): >> https://9vx.org/post/a-malloc-idiom-in-go/ > > I think you are suggesting inferring types of subobjects given > that the parent type specified in a literal. So that you can > type > > func NewSet(sz int)*Set { > return &Set{cap: sz, members:{}} > } > > Or even > > func NewSet(sz int)*Set { > return &{cap: sz, members:{}} > } > > Or even > > func NewSet(sz int)*Set { > return &{sz, {}} > } > > I agree. Though some people won't like the extreme brevity of > the last form! Yes, this is exactly the idea. I like this empty-compound-literal form, but I agree that the last form is probably asking for trouble. For example, if the last two members of type Set are e.g. *Foo and map[T]T', you probably meant to allocate the map. I think compound literals for structs should retain field names. I definitely like the second idea where you infer the type based on the return value (after all, it _is_ known!). --dho -- 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.
