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@ydnar ydnar commented Apr 18, 2025

This is a rudimentary POC to demonstrate an alternative approach to #331. It generates named Go types for any result directly used in a function.

It trades Go generic complexity for additional named type surface area. I’m not sure which is better.

Inspired by a suggestion from @Mossaka.

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I like this change personally!

// ResultTupleIncomingDatagramStreamOutgoingDatagramStreamErrorCode represents the imported result "#".
//
// result<tuple<incoming-datagram-stream, outgoing-datagram-stream>, error-code>
type ResultTupleIncomingDatagramStreamOutgoingDatagramStreamErrorCode cm.Result[TupleIncomingDatagramStreamOutgoingDatagramStreamShape, cm.Tuple[IncomingDatagramStream, OutgoingDatagramStream], ErrorCode]
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oh wow this type name is brutally long.

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Yeah, this isn’t great.

Comment on lines +1 to +22
// Code generated by wit-bindgen-go. DO NOT EDIT.

package streams

import (
"go.bytecodealliance.org/cm"
)

// ResultListU8StreamError represents the imported result "#".
//
// result<list<u8>, stream-error>
type ResultListU8StreamError cm.Result[cm.List[uint8], cm.List[uint8], StreamError]

// ResultU64StreamError represents the imported result "#".
//
// result<u64, stream-error>
type ResultU64StreamError cm.Result[uint64, uint64, StreamError]

// ResultStreamError represents the imported result "#".
//
// result<_, stream-error>
type ResultStreamError cm.Result[StreamError, struct{}, StreamError]
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nice this will reduce the burden of spelling out the shape of the Result type everytime you use it.

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I'm not sure it's better!

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ydnar commented May 7, 2025

Not going in this direction.

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