On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Jason Fager <jfa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you speak a little to the practical differences between owned boxes > and ~[T]/~str? How does the difference affect how I should use each? I wrote the section on owned boxes in the tutorial currently in master, so I would suggest reading that. It's very rare for there to be a use case for an owned box outside of a recursive data structure or plugin system (traits as objects). The coverage in the tutorial of vectors/strings is not only lacking in depth but is also *incorrect*, so I understand why there's a lot of confusion about them. Vectors/strings are containers, and aren't connected to owned boxes any more than HashMap/TreeMap/TrieMap. I would prefer it if the syntactic sugar didn't exist and we just had generic container literals, because it seems to end up causing a lot of confusion.
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