On Fri, 2025-11-28 at 14:27 +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Thu Nov 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM JST, John Hubbard wrote:
> > On 11/26/25 3:43 PM, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > > I'm not sure this is necessary - for one, we could just use the .len()
> > > method
> > > on the Range. As well - if we just implement Deref for FbRange (which I
> > > think
> > > would be fine here) we could just use .len() through that.
> >
> > Hi Lyude!
> >
> > Good idea about the deref coercion. It has a minor type mismatch as-is,
> > though: Range<u64>::len() returns usize, but FbRange::len() returns u64,
> > which matches the callers that we have so far.
>
> It's even worse than that, `Range<u64>::len()` simply doesn't exist. :)
oh huh! OK - this makes sense then :)
>
> `len()` is implemented through `ExactSizeIterator`, which specifies the
> return type as `usize`. This obviously cannot provide a reliable result
> when the range is u64, so the implementation was simply not done. See
> [1] for evidence.
>
> But having our own range type lets us slip our own `fn len(&self) ->
> u64` implementation.
>
> [1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.Range.html
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Lyude Paul (she/her)
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
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