[Fwd: Re: [go-nuts] Re: Generics false dichotomy]

[Walter Bright]

On 2/16/2014 12:09 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
> Someone with serious knowledge should wade into this campaign of FUD.
> The whole thread is wrong-headed.

"However, I agree that there may well be other reasons to not have them in Go, 
such as their simply not being especially useful in day-to-day programming; but 
I don't have enough experience with meta-programming to make such a judgment."

Some years ago, I felt exactly the same way about generics. I have recently 
written some very interesting D programs, and I would have shocked my former 
self with nearly every function being a template.