Ask HN: Do you see the future in Go?

Re:Ask HN: Do you see the future in Go? by gatestone on Monday October 21, 2013 @11:52AM (#6586295)

How is it complicated to sort a list? The only challenge is to provide a corresponding swap function for your list (or for any ordinal "collection" you need), like in this example for arrays, when it is trivial:

func (s Organs) Swap(i, j int) { s[i], s[j] = s[j], s[i] }

http://golang.org/pkg/sort/#example_Interface

Also note two things:

- This is the efficient and type safe way to handle polymorphism in Go

- The standard packages documentation is very nice with live, runnable examples

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Re:Ask HN: Do you see the future in Go? by Tichy on Monday October 21, 2013 @01:48PM (#6587078)

But you also have to implement Len() and Less(), don't you?

Maybe you can create a better way, but it is not implemented in the sort package by default.

Also I suppose you need to "convert" your list to some other type with the said functions provided (dervied from the standard go lists, forgot the name). Maybe that is a standard go mechanism, but it still amounts to more lines of code.

Maybe complicated is the wrong word, longwinded might be better?

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