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typesanitizer
4y ago
If you look at the GopherCon talk I gave (linked at the beginning of the post), it is about reading the spec. So yes, I did read the spec, and I realize that this is not syntactically valid (it would be a very basic compiler bug if this wer
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> The biggest negative for me the author overlooked is the lack of non-nullable types. I did mention the pervasiveness of nil and the lack of sum types as negatives. > The positive thing the author doesn't mention is that it'
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4y ago
This is a fair point. To be clear, I wasn't suggesting Canonicalize as _the_ name, but as one potential candidate. As you've shown, it has some shortcomings. Perhaps Normalize is a better alternative (and also another candidate th
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4y ago
Thanks! I'm a fan of your work and posts on Ninja, so I'm glad to hear this. :)
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> I don't think it focused enough on the positives (of which I think there is some - for example, it has very nice and highly performant lightweight threads with full blocking semantics via goroutines). I've tried to focus on t