On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Can we arrange to do that differently? I'd prefer something in which the
> argument and result types are visibly connected to the actual datatypes
> at hand, for instance
> array_subscript(anyarray, internal) returns anyelement
> array_assign(anyarray, internal, anyelement) returns anyarray
What about having no internal arguments here at all? Like if you want
to support foo[4] define a subscript function that takes (mytype, int)
and returns whatever. You might have to allow for multiple
subscripting functions with different argument types for this to
really work, though.
/me ducks
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