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go/types: add IsAssignableTo predicate #5498

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adonovan opened this issue May 17, 2013 · 2 comments
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go/types: add IsAssignableTo predicate #5498

adonovan opened this issue May 17, 2013 · 2 comments

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@adonovan
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Many clients will need something like this:

type Type interface {
    ...
    IsAssignableTo(Type) bool
}

This is a generalization of the Implements predicate defined thus:
  Implements(conc Type, iface *Interface) bool
in which you always have a concrete type and an interface.

FWIW, my code only needs the latter.  Specifically,

ssa/interp only need this method:
  func MissingMethod(conc types.Type, iface *types.Interface) *types.Method

ssa/pointer only needs this method:
  func ImplementsInterface(conc types.Type, iface *types.Interface) bool {
    return MissingMethod(conc, iface) == nil
  }
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rsc commented May 24, 2013

Comment 1:

reflect already has this and calls it AssignableTo.

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Comment 2:

This was fixed with https://golang.org/cl/11189043/ .
We may rename IsAssignableTo to IsAssignable in the future for consistency with reflect.

Status changed to Fixed.

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