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		swirepe on Jan 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Proposal for Adding Generics to Go Say you need a binary heap to hold some customer records, and another binary heap to store some orders. How many times do you implement a binary heap?

masklinn on Jan 13, 2021 [–]

Apparently their answer is “five times”.

marcus_holmes on Jan 13, 2021 | [–]

Well, twice at least.

I don't know why you're all so scared of a little repetition ;)

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