Go Time
Indecent (language) Proposals: Part 2
This is the second part of a discussion about Go language proposals that may or may not make it into the language. Listen to part one as well!
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Featuring
- Daniel Martí – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Roberto Clapis – Twitter, GitHub
- Mat Ryer – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website
Notes and Links
The proposals discussed in this episode are:
- 20733 - Redefine range loop variables in each iteration
- 12854 - Type inferred composite literals
- 35304 - Anonymous struct literals
- 21496 - [Even narrower: permit type elision in nested composite literals](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21496
- 6386 - Constants of arbitrary types
- 27975 - Immutable type qualifier
- 29036 - Make imported symbols predictable