You might refer to...
https://blog.learngoprogramming.com/golang-variadic-funcs-how-to-patterns-369408f19085
...to better appreciate Robert's advice. As he suggested, a variadic Go
function accepting a slice of the special, magic "empty interface" type
("interface{}") can indeed do anything. The downside is that you have to do
the anything yourself...validating the types of the unknown and mysterious
arguments at run time rather than the compiler validating it for you at
compile time.
For moral support, fmt.Printf is a popular example of this API structure.
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 4:20 PM <minfo...@arcor.de> wrote:
> Thanks, but then you would have to define the interface beforehand for any
> argument type. And there are a lot:
> format strings, strings, characters, integers of different size,
> floating-pont numbers, file-ids
>
> Meanwhile I found this discussion:
> https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18605
> which hints that comma-separated variadic arguments might come with Go 2.x
> in some unknown future.
>
>
> Am Samstag, 30. November 2019 22:00:52 UTC+1 schrieb Robert Engels:
>
>> Make the type interface{} and you can pass anything and use reflect
>>
>> On Nov 30, 2019, at 2:08 PM, minf...@arcor.de wrote:
>>
>>
>> C allows comma-separated argument lists via variadic macros. Whereas
>> AFAIK golang allows only variadic arguments of the same type.
>> (Please excuse if I am wrong, I am considering myself a golang newbie)
>>
>> C demo program that prints: -- -- 1 and 1 1 and 1
>>
>> // ###### C variadic macro test
>>
>> #include <stdio.h>
>>
>> #define PR(...) if(df){printf(__VA_ARGS__);\
>> if(ef)fprintf(stderr,__VA_ARGS__);}
>>
>> // Flags
>> int df=1, ef=1;
>>
>> int main(void) {
>> PR("-- ");
>> PR("%d and %d ",df,ef);
>> }
>>
>> // ###### End
>>
>> How would one implement an equivalent PR(...) "function" in Go ???
>>
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