OK thank you, that confirms what I was thinking.

Indeed it's not a common need.
I wanted to know if it was possible to 
rewrite https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/stretchr/testify/assert#Nil with a 
"nillable" constraint instead of "interface{}".


Le jeudi 22 décembre 2022 à 14:43:51 UTC+1, axel.wa...@googlemail.com a 
écrit :

> On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 2:24 PM Pierre Durand <pierre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Same question for `len()`: is there a way to declare a constraint that 
>> matches types that support `len()` ?
>
>
> For this, the workaround you posted works, at least. It's not convenient, 
> but it also does not seem like a common need - again I'd be kind of curious 
> what you want it for.
>  
>
>>
>> Le jeudi 22 décembre 2022 à 14:23:22 UTC+1, Pierre Durand a écrit :
>>
>>> Is there a way to declare a "nillable" constraint that matches all types 
>>> that can be nil (pointer, slice, map, etc.) ?
>>>
>>> I would like to write a function, that receives a parameter (with a 
>>> generic type), and check if this parameter is nil.
>>> I found a very ugly way to write it: https://go.dev/play/p/0g0SoTlBEgs
>>> The problem: the map type needs more than 1 type, so I need to provide 
>>> the 3 types when I call the `IsNil()` function/
>>> Is there a better way ?
>>>
>>> Yes I know I could use `any`, and check with reflect if the value inside 
>>> the interface is nil.
>>> But I want to know if it's possible to do it with generics.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
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