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Re:The Next Step for Generics by gowld on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @05:25PM (#23544392)
Go has had generics for years. But they are in a preprocessor not main compilation.
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Re:The Next Step for Generics by jasonhansel on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @05:41PM (#23544580)
Indeed. If Go had a built-in macro preprocessor, generics would be less necessary, but macro programming has plenty of problems of its own...
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