Compile-time parameters in Zig: a possible solution to generic functions and data structures in Go?

[Nicolas Grilly]

Hello,

I just read about the concept of compile-time parameters in Zig (a new programming language designed to replace C):

http://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-programming-language-blurs-line-compile-time-run-time.html

Could it be a way to provide generic functions and data structures in Go?

I note we already have some kind of "compile-time feature" with constants.

Nicolas Grilly

[Bryan Mills]

See https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/15292/2016-09-compile-time-functions.md for a similar proposal for Go.

(Note that in my proposal, “compile-time” is a property of the function rather than the parameter. From what I can tell the implications of that difference are minor.)