On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 9:26 PM Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote:
> One of my guidelines for an acceptable generics proposal is that > people can write Min and Max. Your proposal admits that it doesn't > permit that. I think that is a problem. I'm fine with the general > idea of "do 80% of the job" but in practice people really do want to > write Min and Max. I think they are part of the 80% that needs to be > handled, not the 20% that can be omitted. > At some point we should decide if a 90% solution is possible at all and if not, maybe a 80% solution is what we should aim. This proposal is very interesting and seems to fit nicely into Go, with minimal disruption. And speaking personally, it would cover 99% of my needs for generics (I'm not that interested in Min/Max, but writing functions to get map keys gets old fast). -- 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/CAPKajN6cC1oDZxmi0gJ6-GEMaVHEF7NKF7EyOcuOeyMpS7Dt-Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
