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| author | Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org> | 2023-01-26 11:22:26 -0800 |
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| committer | Gopher Robot <gobot@golang.org> | 2023-01-26 19:45:22 +0000 |
| commit | 627f12868c4c3e714bbb4ce4a418f918c1935dc2 (patch) | |
| tree | f8363367f0bff8d49d124bc33c93200db1f9dce2 /src/cmd/compile | |
| parent | e9c5e60cfd602f0d9aa257793a802b0180efadd9 (diff) | |
| download | go-627f12868c4c3e714bbb4ce4a418f918c1935dc2.tar.xz | |
go/types, types2: remove misleading example from comment
Before this CL, the comment used the case of a recursive generic
function call as an example for uni-directional unification.
However, such cases are now more generally (and correctly) addressed
through renaming of the type parameters.
Change-Id: I69e94f53418e1fb4ca9431aeb27c639c40d19b09
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/463735
Reviewed-by: Robert Findley <rfindley@google.com>
Run-TryBot: Robert Griesemer <gri@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@google.com>
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Diffstat (limited to 'src/cmd/compile')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/cmd/compile/internal/types2/unify.go | 10 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/src/cmd/compile/internal/types2/unify.go b/src/cmd/compile/internal/types2/unify.go index 08508c0e60..381093c574 100644 --- a/src/cmd/compile/internal/types2/unify.go +++ b/src/cmd/compile/internal/types2/unify.go @@ -17,15 +17,7 @@ import ( // provided to the unify call. For unidirectional unification, only // one of these sets (say x) is provided, and then type parameters are // only resolved for the x argument passed to unify, not the y argument -// (even if that also contains possibly the same type parameters). This -// is crucial to infer the type parameters of self-recursive calls: -// -// func f[P any](a P) { f(a) } -// -// For the call f(a) we want to infer that the type argument for P is P. -// During unification, the parameter type P must be resolved to the type -// parameter P ("x" side), but the argument type P must be left alone so -// that unification resolves the type parameter P to P. +// (even if that also contains possibly the same type parameters). // // For bidirectional unification, both sets are provided. This enables // unification to go from argument to parameter type and vice versa. |