Generic functions and methods

- [Instructor] Implementing a new function…for every type leads to a lot of redundant code.…To avoid code duplication we can combine…all the different functions into…a single generic function.…Let's see how.…I open up our project in the exercise files,…chapter three, 0302, start.…To create a generic function,…we need to provide at least one placeholder type.…The placeholder must appear right…after the function name between angle brackets.…

Note that we could've used any other identifier.…Capital T is just a popular way…to defer to generic placeholders.…From now on we can refer to this placeholder type…in the argument list or anywhere in the function's body.…So, let's add the argument list.…It has a left hand side argument…and I'm going to use a placeholder type…and same for the right hand side argument.…The function returns as usual,…a Bool value.…

Let's implement it.…I'm going to return the result…of comparing the two arguments.…As you can see,…we get an error.…Binary operator equals…can not be applied to two T operants.…