Featherweight go

Robert Griesemer; Raymond Hu; Wen Kokke; Julien Lange; Ian Lance Taylor; Bernardo Toninho; Philip Wadler; Nobuko Yoshida

doi:10.1145/3428217

Featherweight go

Robert Griesemer, Raymond Hu, Wen Kokke, Julien Lange, Ian Lance Taylor, Bernardo Toninho, Philip Wadler, Nobuko Yoshida

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We describe a design for generics in Go inspired by previous work on Featherweight Java by Igarashi, Pierce, and Wadler. Whereas subtyping in Java is nominal, in Go it is structural, and whereas generics in Java are defined via erasure, in Go we use monomorphisation. Although monomorphisation is widely used, we are one of the first to formalise it. Our design also supports a solution to The Expression Problem.

Original language	English
Article number	149
Journal	Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
Volume	4
Issue number	OOPSLA
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3428217
Publication status	Published - 13 Nov 2020

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Generics
Go
Monomorphisation

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