Which defies the whole point of easy go-gettable packages. gen is a good contribution, but it only works for a subset of cases. E.g. I follow a comparable appr

Which defies the whole point of easy go-gettable packages. gen is a good contribution, but it only works for a subset of cases. E.g. I follow a comparable approach in my Java library for finite state dictionaries because Java does not provide generics over primitive types (luckily, that is a closed class). But it's less than ideal.