> Except I cannot find them. The dynamically-sized type posts are sort of scattered all over Niko's blog. You can start here:
http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2013/04/30/dynamically-sized-types/ for a general overview. On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:38 PM, spir <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/08/2013 07:20 PM, Patrick Walton wrote: > >> Because then `str` would not be a dynamically sized type. >> > > (I'm not convinced --yet-- strings *must* have dynamic size at all, as I > never need this feature even if I do quite a lot of text processing. When > generating runtime produced strings, I'd rather concat all bits at once at > the very end, thus knowing the final size. No support for this is needed: > one never writes into a growable string buffer, instead always concat all > at once. But this may be another, distinct story. And there may be use > cases I'm unaware of, even common ones.) > > > Please read the blog posts on dynamically sized types. >> > > All right, I'll do. > PS: Except I cannot find them. > Don't seem listed in the list of blog post at https://github.com/mozilla/ > rust/wiki/Docs > Also not in the archives of your own blog at: http://pcwalton.github.io/ > blog/archives/ > > Denis > > spir <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 11/08/2013 09:53 AM, Daniel Micay wrote: >>> >>>> It couldn't be called `str`, because `&str` is a slice. >>>> >>> >>> Why couldn't str be slices? (eg somewhat like arrays are slices in D) >>> Also, i don't understand literals in Rust currently. Same for static >>> arrays. >>> >>> Denis >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> 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 >
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