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    1. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 7 May 2018
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      Exactly. In many ways, OCaml is a better Go than Go.

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    2. whitequark‏ @whitequark 7 May 2018
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      someone should just write a cross-compiler from Go to Cmm :P

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    3. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 7 May 2018
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      I’ve said for years that if you put me in charge of designing Go, I’d take OCaml, make the syntax C-like, drop the object system, do a few other minor cleanups, and maybe add userspace threading. Done.

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    4. {{data.user}}‏ @phenlix 8 May 2018
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      why drop the object system ?

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    5. whitequark‏ @whitequark 8 May 2018
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      it doesn't really justify the complexity it adds to the compiler however: I think to really emulate Go we'd need to drop the *class* system and keep the *object* system

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    6. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 8 May 2018
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      I’m not sure interfaces are really that important, honestly. When we needed them in rustboot we just used a record with a bunch of closures.

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    7. whitequark‏ @whitequark 8 May 2018
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      isn't interface{} used a lot in Go code?

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    9. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 8 May 2018
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      Replying to @riking27 @whitequark @phenlix

      Those could just be (possibly nested) records of closures though. e.g. type reader = { read: byte array -> int } type reader_writer = { reader: reader, writer: writer }

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    10. whitequark‏ @whitequark 8 May 2018
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      Replying to @pcwalton @riking27 @phenlix

      That seems like pretty bad ergonomics.

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      Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 8 May 2018
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      Replying to @whitequark @riking27 @phenlix

      Yeah, it may be worth adding better support for that pattern. It might be nice to unify closures and interfaces, in that case; closures are just a special case of interfaces where there’s one method…

      10:09 AM - 8 May 2018 from Civic Center Tenderloin, San Francisco
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        2. aaron j. weiss‏ @aatxe 8 May 2018
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          Replying to @pcwalton @whitequark and

          As far as I know, the product of "adding better support for that pattern" is essentially the OCaml object system.

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        3. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 8 May 2018
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          Replying to @aatxe @whitequark and

          Fair enough.

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        2. whitequark‏ @whitequark 8 May 2018
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          Replying to @pcwalton @riking27 @phenlix

          are they? methods carry a self with a public type, and closures carry an environment with an existential type

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        3. Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 8 May 2018
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          Replying to @whitequark @riking27 @phenlix

          Yeah, and closures are structurally typed. Meh. Might not be worth it then.

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