Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types
Alphabetically by last name, the group consists of Jonathan Amsterdam (@jba), Alan Donovan (@adonovan), Robert Griesemer (@griesemer), Daniel Martí (@mvdan), Roger Peppe (@rogpeppe), Keith Randall (@khr), and Ian Lance Taylor (@ianlancetaylor). We’ve now reached a point where we’re ready to share our results with the community. \n\nThis issue is an umbrella for discussing several related proposals for new collections APIs for Go 1.28. It presents a high level overview of the themes, and links to the various concrete proposals and associated implementation CLs.\n\nGo currently provides few collection types in its library, and from the outset we have emphasized the flexibility of the language’s built-in slice and map types.
- ▪Alphabetically by last name, the group consists of Jonathan Amsterdam (@jba), Alan Donovan (@adonovan), Robert Griesemer (@griesemer), Daniel Martí (@mvdan), Roger Peppe (@rogpeppe), Keith Randall (@khr), and Ian Lance Taylor (@ianlancetayl
- ▪We’ve now reached a point where we’re ready to share our results with the community. \n\nThis issue is an umbrella for discussing several related proposals for new collections APIs for Go 1.28.
- ▪It presents a high level overview of the themes, and links to the various concrete proposals and associated implementation CLs.\n\nGo currently provides few collection types in its library, and from the outset we have emphasized the flexibi
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