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cgag
on March 14, 2019
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The ups and downs of porting 50k lines of C++ to G...
the cost of power is chronically underestimated
whateveracct
on March 14, 2019
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Exactly - parametric polymorphism doesn't give you power. It in fact only ever makes your types more constrained!
In a theoretical Go:
func id<A>(a A) A
This only has one terminating, non-panicking valid implementation.
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