On 22/10/2012 6:52 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> I can make the translator generate integer literals as the patterns
> for the arms of the match. However, I think the generated Rust code
> would be nicer for humans to read with char literals in the patterns.
Write it like: "match c as char { ... }" then. I imagine the resulting
generated code is identical.
> I suggest allowing char literals when matching on an integer (or when
> otherwise comparing to an integer or when assigning to an integer
> variable) as long as the Unicode code point of the character
> represented by the character literal is not greater than the largest
> integer representable by the integer type.
Interesting possibility. As in: add char literals to the set of types to
which integer-type inference applies?
> (Aside: I liked the old syntax without => and with mandatory braces
> around each arm better.)
Me too, but I think we're done changing that part :)
-Graydon
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