Isn't there a possibility that vector syntax is going to change at some
point?
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Ziad
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Pierre Talbot <ptal...@hyc.io> wrote:
> The for-loop and the nested function declaration are both interesting and
> I'll let you know which one I choose after further investigation in the
> Rust compiler.
>
> If some of you have other ideas, please do not hesitate.
>
> Best regards,
> Pierre Talbot
>
>
> On 11/30/2013 08:24 PM, Benjamin Striegel wrote:
>
>> Currently our `for` loops are implemented strangely. In essence, right
>> now a `for` loop is just syntax sugar that gets expanded during the parsing
>> stage. This was easy to implement, but it means that our error messages
>> around `for` loops are strange and it limits our ability to do more
>> intelligent things, like so:
>>
>> for i in [1,2,3] { // currently we can't do this, you need to write
>> out `[1,2,3].iter()`
>>
>> If you could implement `for` loops in the "proper" way, it would be a
>> great boon to us. However, I'm not the one who really knows exactly what
>> the "proper" way is. :) And I wasn't able to find an issue in the bug
>> tracker for this with any details. Perhaps Daniel Micay (strcat) could
>> elaborate.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Pierre Talbot <ptal...@hyc.io <mailto:
>> ptal...@hyc.io>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> I'm a French student finishing his study this year and a teacher
>> gave us a project to finish by the end of the year which is to
>> modify (or add) a small feature to an existing interpreter (or
>> compiler, language,...) such as a primitive or a control structure.
>> I'm pretty new to Rust and I wonder if you have some ideas, some
>> works that could possibly be useful to Rust, even if extremely
>> small. My objective is to get into Rust with this homework and
>> then work further on Rust later.
>> I can guess how much is hard to understand a compiler and start
>> working on it, and that's basically why I'm asking you for an
>> idea. I already worked on open-source projects (mainly in C++) so
>> I don't have much "outside lessons" to take (such as learning git).
>>
>> Do you have suggestions that could fit well for this kind of project?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Pierre Talbot.
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