[grey-area]

You certainly might use them to write a facade which made life easier for consumers of the math pkg and accept floats,ints or uints even if behind the scenes it splits into different implementations.

[horsemans]

I would not be very happy if every time I called math.Min, I was also, under the hood, calling reflect.TypeOf.

[danachow]

The whole point of generics is to avoid this - why do you think you would have to use reflection?