sure, thank you. I will go through the PR review process for asn1 and x509, maybe some good ideas will come up. Sebastien
On Friday, June 26, 2020 at 11:51:05 AM UTC-7, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 11:03 AM Sebastien Rosset <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > @ianlancetaylor , thank you for the quick reply. The reason I was asking > is because potentially this could have been used to fix `type > ObjectIdentifier []int` in the `encoding/asn1` package and the > `crypto/x509` package. Currently these package are not fully compliant with > the ASN.1 specification, which means in practice some certificates cannot > be parsed. > > > > > > I am trying to fix the encoding/asn1 and crypto/x509 package by adding > support for OID values that are greater than 2^31. There are multiple ways > to fix the issues, and unfortunately it won't be possible to simply change > the ObjectIdentifier type because that would break too many applications. > If it's not possible to change the type, then most alternatives seem to be > somewhat cumbersome. For reference the PR is > https://github.com/golang/go/pull/39795. > > Thanks, understood. > > Generics don't solve all problems. I agree that there seems to be a > way that we could modify generics to solve this particular problem. > But it means introducing an idea that the rest of the language has > decided to reject: default values for arguments. I don't think it > would be consistent with the language to permit default values for > type arguments when we do not permit default values for non-type > arguments. While we don't have to be strictly consistent here, I > think we need a good reason to break consistency. And in the larger > scheme of things I don't think that making it easier to make a > backward compatible change to one specific package, a package that is > not all that widely used, is a good enough reason. > > I'm not claiming to have the final word, but that is my opinion. > > 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/551cacb5-8bef-439d-bb17-2fc8d6b8c357o%40googlegroups.com.
