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proposal: spec: generics: Anonymous generic aggregate types #45591

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rvolosatovs opened this issue Apr 15, 2021 · 7 comments
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proposal: spec: generics: Anonymous generic aggregate types #45591

rvolosatovs opened this issue Apr 15, 2021 · 7 comments
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rvolosatovs commented Apr 15, 2021

I decided to implement some common functional programming primitives in Go2 and immediately was faced with a drawback of the design.
Given:

func Map[F, T any](f func(F) T, vs ...F) []T

I would like to write an idiomatic "table" test like this:

func TestMap(t *testing.T) {
	for _, tc := range []struct[F, T any] {
		Name     string
		Func     func(F) T
		Values   []F
		Expected []T
	}{
		{
			Name:     "strconv.Itoa",
			Func:     strconv.Itoa,
			Values:   []int{1, 2, 3},
			Expected: []string{"1", "2", "3"},
		},
		{
			Name:     "append string",
			Func:     func(s string) string { return s+"test" },
			Values:   []string{"1", "2", "3"},
			Expected: []string{"1test", "2test", "3test"},
		},
	} {
		t.Run(tc.Name, func(t *testing.T) {
			if ret := fungo.Map(tc.Func, tc.Values...); !reflect.DeepEqual(ret, tc.Expected) {
				t.Errorf(`Got:
%v

Expected:
%v`,
					ret, tc.Expected)
			}
		})
	}
}

Which does not work.

What actually works is this:
(from https://github.com/rvolosatovs/fungo/blob/13515ac078aa5099896ec57bbb7ad050e996c653/fungo_test.go2)

type MapTestCase[F, T any] struct {
    Name     string
    Func     func(F) T
    Values   []F
    Expected []T
}

func runMapTest[F, T any](t *testing.T, tc MapTestCase[F, T]) bool {
	return t.Run(tc.Name, func(t *testing.T) {
		if ret := fungo.Map(tc.Func, tc.Values...); !reflect.DeepEqual(ret, tc.Expected) {
			t.Errorf(`Got:
%v

Expected:
%v`,
				ret, tc.Expected)
		}
	})
}

func TestMap(t *testing.T) {
	for _, tc := range []MapTestCase[int, string]{
		{
			Name:     "strconv.Itoa",
			Func:     strconv.Itoa,
			Values:   []int{1, 2, 3},
			Expected: []string{"1", "2", "3"},
		},
	} {
		runMapTest(t, tc)
	}
	for _, tc := range []MapTestCase[string, string]{
		{
			Name:     "append string",
			Func:     func(s string) string { return s+"test" },
			Values:   []string{"1", "2", "3"},
			Expected: []string{"1test", "2test", "3test"},
		},
	} {
		runMapTest(t, tc)
	}
}

Observations:

  1. Current type Name[<parameters>] struct{...} syntax does not support anonymous structs. A workaround could be to define a type TestCase[<parameters>] struct{...} right above the loop, but anonymous struct is cleaner IMO. Note that type declaration within a function does not work in go2go tool atm, but I assume that is a temporary thing.
  2. Currently go2go tool requires the type to be instantiated for range, that means that in order to test this, multiple loops would be required, which is not desirable.

Proposal:

  1. Allow struct[<parameters>]{...} syntax for definition of anonymous structs (or better refactor the proposed syntax to type Name struct[<parameters>] {...} for consistency). This also concerns anonymous functions etc.
  2. Allow range over generic structs as seen above
@gopherbot gopherbot added this to the Proposal milestone Apr 15, 2021
@ianlancetaylor ianlancetaylor added generics Issue is related to generics v2 A language change or incompatible library change LanguageChange labels Apr 15, 2021
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Allow struct[]{...} syntax for definition of anonymous structs (or better refactor the proposed syntax to type Name struct[] {...} for consistency)

There's no obvious reason why structs should be special in permitted type parameters, when other types don't. Why not permit type parameters for the other aggregate types?

Allow range over generic structs as seen above

I don't think this can be implemented. You are relying on type inference when calling fungo.Map. If we can make that call in a loop over a slice of parameterized structs, we have to instantiate fungo.Map separately each time through the loop. But the current proposal only supports instantiation at compile time. So we would have to break up the loop. While we could do that for this particular example, we couldn't do it if the slice of parameterized structs were passed by another function in a different package. So this seems impossible.

@rvolosatovs rvolosatovs changed the title proposal: spec: generics: Range over a slice of anonymous generic structs proposal: spec: generics: Anonymous generic aggregate types Apr 15, 2021
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rvolosatovs commented Apr 15, 2021

FTR, ended up with following structure:
https://github.com/rvolosatovs/fungo/blob/c21e889863bfa3f241f0522a8633ecbfad33027c/fungo_test.go2

Once go2go supports type declaration within function scope and anonymous generic functions are supported as well, this is "good enough" in my opinion

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bcmills commented Apr 22, 2021

In the handful of statically-typed languages I'm aware of that support these kinds of loops (namely OCaml and Haskell), they are modeled as “existential types”. I see a few resources about existential types on the Internet,¹ but the best introduction I'm aware of is chapter 24 of Pierce's Types and Programming Languages.

Existential types are very closely related to Go's “interface types”: they define operations on abstract types, and at run-time they pack a descriptor for a concrete type together with a value that supports the defined operations on those types.

I think it would be possible in principle to extend Go's interfaces with generic types as proposed to produce something equivalent (or at least very close) to existential types. However, I don't have the bandwidth to look at that extension at the moment. (If there is a compelling use-case for this sort of extension, I might give it some more thought after ordinary type parameters are released. 😅)


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Based on the discussion above this is a likely decline. Leaving open for four weeks for final comments.

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benjaminjkraft commented May 6, 2021

Note I believe you can also do this with interfaces, although you still have to put the test case details in a separate function. To your example, add a method

func (MapTestCase[F, T]) runMapTest(t *testing.T) {
  // same as runMapTest you have
}

func TestMap(t *testing.T) {
  for _, tc := range []interface{ runMapTest(t *testing.T) }{
    MapTestCase[int, string]{...},
    MapTestCase[string, string]{...},
  } {
    tc.runMapTest(t)
  }
}

The trick is that MapTestCase[F, T] implements the given non-generic interface regardless of the values of F and T.

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rvolosatovs commented May 6, 2021

@benjaminjkraft awesome idea, that's what I ended up doing (different function, same idea):

type KeysTestCase[K comparable, V any] struct {
    Value	 map[K]V
    Expected []K
}

func (tc KeysTestCase[K, V]) Run(t *testing.T) {
	test.AssertSameElementsDeepEqual(t, slices.Collect[K](maps.Keys(tc.Value), []K{}), tc.Expected)
}

func TestKeys(t *testing.T) {
	for name, tc := range map[string]test.Runner{
		"string->int": KeysTestCase[string, int]{
			Value:    map[string]int{"1": 1, "2": 2, "3": 3},
			Expected: []string{"1", "2", "3"},
		},
		"int->struct{}": KeysTestCase[int, struct{}]{
			Value:    map[int]struct{}{1: struct{}{}, 42: struct{}{}, 512: struct{}{}},
			Expected: []int{1, 42, 512},
		},
	} {
		t.Run(name, tc.Run)
	}
}

https://github.com/rvolosatovs/fungo/blob/87e1d650160196a7037ce1f91dc9f0c43cfe2d23/maps/maps_test.go2#L11-L57
with the help of little shared interface https://github.com/rvolosatovs/fungo/blob/87e1d650160196a7037ce1f91dc9f0c43cfe2d23/internal/test/test.go2#L9-L11

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No change in consensus.

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