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Re:Go generics draft design: building a hashtable by masklinn on Thursday June 18, 2020 @01:28AM (#23560050)
Non-generic sum types are useful but you can’t build an option or result type out of them, so the usefulness is somewhat hampered.
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Re:Go generics draft design: building a hashtable by ccktlmazeltov on Thursday June 18, 2020 @03:50PM (#23567125)
But you don't need to, generic Option and Result types could be built as part of the standard library.
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Re:Go generics draft design: building a hashtable by masklinn on Saturday June 20, 2020 @09:44AM (#23583900)
Yes but then you need neither sum types nor user-defined generics, you can just build-in whatever sugar is useful or necessary (possibly repurposing existing sugar e.g. the `select` statement).
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Re:Go generics draft design: building a hashtable by ccktlmazeltov on Sunday June 21, 2020 @03:15PM (#23594548)
sum types are still super useful imo without generics.
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