Expectations for generics in Go 1.18

Re:Expectations for generics in Go 1.18 by glouwbug on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @10:55PM (#29021851)

Canadians now roll with the term Indigenous instead of Aboriginal

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Re:Expectations for generics in Go 1.18 by spenczar5 on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @11:06PM (#29021915)

That may be, but in this case it is a precise technical term, referring to a particular block of Unicode: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Canadian_Aboriginal_...

Maybe the Unicode Consortium should change it, but for now, Canadian Aboriginal is the correct term.

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Re:Expectations for generics in Go 1.18 by LudwigNagasena on Thursday October 28, 2021 @03:47AM (#29023480)

In 10 years a new word may become fashionable. Better to keep technical terms the same.

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Re:Expectations for generics in Go 1.18 by Cthulhu_ on Thursday October 28, 2021 @04:43AM (#29023805)

It's not about fashion, it's about cultural identity. I take it you don't see a problem with master/slave either?

Just do a find and replace, refactoring is easy and trying to argue on the internet about it is tiring.

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Re:Expectations for generics in Go 1.18 by asguy on Thursday October 28, 2021 @11:37AM (#29027352)

I take it you didn’t grow up in the 80s. Trends in words change: you’ll see it with your own eyes.

> trying to argue on the internet about it is tiring.

… exactly.

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Re:Expectations for generics in Go 1.18 by earleybird on Friday October 29, 2021 @07:37PM (#29044689)

If identity is about appearance, that would seem to admit fashion for consideration.

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Re:Expectations for generics in Go 1.18 by uuddlrlr on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @11:54PM (#29022199)

Colloquially in the north "native" is ubiquitous.

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Re:Expectations for generics in Go 1.18 by andai on Thursday October 28, 2021 @01:07AM (#29022581)

For now...

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