[ericflo]

I think the author could use a technique like this to build the higher level abstractions they want: http://commandcenter.blogspot.nl/2014/01/self-referential-fu...

[ufo]

I remember seeing that post a while ago on Reddit. The impression I got from the discussion is that the whole "self-referential" thing was unnecessary and that the code would be much simpler in a language with generics.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1w2y01/rob_pike...