[go-nuts] Re: Question regarding compiler internals

2017-09-22 Thread Jacob McCollum
Keith, The genreal idea is that type parameters can only be specified in 2 places right now: on package-level type definitions and on package-level function definitions. I am waffling on the viability of allowing methods on already-parameterized types to specify type parameters as well, but

[go-nuts] Question regarding compiler internals

2017-09-20 Thread Jacob McCollum
All, This is my first time posting to the golang-nuts mailing list, but I've hit a wall and I'm not sure where else to reach out for some assistance. I'm knee-deep in a research implementation of parameterized types for Go. It started out as an experiment, but I really enjoyed working on it