I suspect the number of C programmers who know what 'volatile' actually means is a fairly small percentage of total C programmers these days.
-Kevin On Sep 19, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Niko Matsakis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:15:47PM +0000, Bill Myers wrote: >> BTW, how about keeping it, and calling it "&volatile" instead of >> "&const", since that's what C uses to name something that can be >> changed outside the program's control? > > That's the best proposed name I've seen. One problem might be that it > has a known meaning to C programmers which is distinct (but > overlapping) from the meaning in Rust... > > > > Niko > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
