By the way, I didn't see any discussion of the HasPrefix/Coercible proposal<https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/9912#issuecomment-36073562>in the workweek minutes. Did anybody bring it up at all?
Vadim On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Oren Ben-Kiki <o...@ben-kiki.org> wrote: > I can't help but feel that forcing the "single inheritance of fast field > access" and "inheritance of trait functions" into one mechanism would be > regrettable. > > Would https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/10491 address all the > requirements? If not, why? > > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Brian Anderson <bander...@mozilla.com>wrote: > >> The downsides you list are all more or less applicable to this design, >> indeed. We are seeing real requirements in real code that indicates that >> the current abstraction facilities provided by Rust are efficient enough >> for certain demanding use cases (the DOM in particular). >> >> Here are the identified requirements: >> >> tree of types (single inheritance) >> downcasting >> thin pointers >> cheap field access >> easy upcasting >> > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > Rust-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > >
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