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Generics should be based on models #15295

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benjamingr opened this issue Apr 14, 2016 · 1 comment
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Generics should be based on models #15295

benjamingr opened this issue Apr 14, 2016 · 1 comment
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Please see: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2738008 by Barbara Liskov:

The support for generic programming in modern object-oriented programming languages is awkward and lacks desirable expressive power. We introduce an expressive genericity mechanism that adds expressive power and strengthens static checking, while remaining lightweight and simple in common use cases. Like type classes and concepts, the mechanism allows existing types to model type constraints retroactively. For expressive power, we expose models as named constructs that can be defined and selected explicitly to witness constraints; in common uses of genericity, however, types implicitly witness constraints without additional programmer effort.

I think what they did there is pretty cool - I'm sorry if this is the incorrect place to stop but I couldn't find a place to comment in /proposals and I didn't find an appropriate issue here.
benjamingr referenced this issue in golang/proposal Apr 14, 2016
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design: fix links in generics proposal
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Change-Id: I66c07d7bc03f63fa7713ff7408d436a7f8b2b8af
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/22059
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gerrand <adg@golang.org>
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The top of https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/15292-generics.md has a line:

"Discussion at https://golang.org/issue/15292"

Feel free to copy your comment to #15292

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