design: type parameter: tweak type list matching rule
Change-Id: Ie9cffcd7a3133981a40947c0a3127d4bb83bb4bd
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/proposal/+/250317
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
diff --git a/design/go2draft-type-parameters.md b/design/go2draft-type-parameters.md
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--- a/design/go2draft-type-parameters.md
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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
Ian Lance Taylor\
Robert Griesemer\
-August 21, 2020
+August 24, 2020
## Abstract
@@ -659,9 +659,8 @@
The `SignedInteger` constraint specifies that the type argument
must be one of the listed types.
-More precisely, the underlying type of the type argument must be
-identical to the underlying type of one of the types in the type
-list.
+More precisely, either the type argument or the underlying type of the
+type argument must be identical to one of the types in the type list.
This means that `SignedInteger` will accept the listed integer types,
and will also accept any type that is defined as one of those types.
@@ -770,9 +769,19 @@
This restriction may be lifted in future language versions.
An interface type with a type list may be useful as a form of sum
type, albeit one that can have the value `nil`.
-Some alternative syntax would likely be required to match on identical
-types rather than on underlying types; perhaps `type ==`.
-For now, this is not permitted.
+
+A type argument satisfies a type constraint with a type list if the
+type argument or its underlying type is present in that type list.
+If we permitted interface types with type lists outside of type
+constraints, then using a list of non-predeclared defined types would
+mean that only those types would implement the interface.
+Using a list of predeclared types, and/or type literals, would mean
+that any type defined as one of those types would implement the
+interface.
+There would be no way to restrict the interface type to only accept a
+predeclared type or a type literal.
+That might be acceptable for the cases where people want to use sum
+types.
### Mutually referencing type parameters
