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PoolloverNathan opened this issue Jan 8, 2024 · 0 comments
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feature: Variadic generic packs and mapping expansion #2470

PoolloverNathan opened this issue Jan 8, 2024 · 0 comments

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PoolloverNathan commented Jan 8, 2024

#1861

This feature request requests variadic generics functionality, as well as mapping those generics. My proposed implementation of this feature request would allow the following example syntax:

---@generic R, T...
---@param fn fun(...: T...):R
---@param ... Component<T>
---@return System<R>
function System.new(fn, ...)
    ...
end

---@generic R
---@param System<R> self
---@param entities Entity[]
---@return R[]
function System:run()
    ...
end

The example code above also introduces a shorthand for variadics (line 3): whenever the parameter ... would have an unexpanded parameter pack as an argument, it is implicitly expanded. Any type can be expanded at any point by suffixing a ..., as shown in line 2.

The motivation of this request arises from an well-typed ECS implementation with object-oriented systems. Without variadic generics, it is not possible in any way I know of to allow a system to depend on any amount of components and still have well-typed parameters.

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