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Re:Toward Go 2 by kccqzy on Thursday July 13, 2017 @05:39PM (#14765499)
Generics in Go: https://twitter.com/snoyberg/status/882255351382462464
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Re:Toward Go 2 by zyxzkz on Friday July 14, 2017 @01:47AM (#14767797)
That's an awesome trick, using angle brackets that aren't angle brackets!
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Re:Toward Go 2 by kccqzy on Thursday July 13, 2017 @07:41PM (#14766238)
It really reminds me of early C macros where people use the ## operator to synthesize monomorphized versions.
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Re:Toward Go 2 by fanf2 on Friday July 14, 2017 @12:31PM (#14771087)
The ## operator is an ANSI C feature, so not really "early". In pre-ANSI preprocessors you had to abuse the lexer to paste tokens, e.g. by relying on // being deleted - nowadays comments are replaced by space.
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