I guess this would be the least-bad mailing list for it
considering the other one is -commits.
With Rust 0.1, I finally decided to actually test Rust (kudos for
a perfect compilation under OSX, by the way, no issue whatsoever
to report), and have thus encountered interrogations, dislikes,
or
On 2012-01-23, at 05:37 , Kevin Cantu wrote:
I'm curious though, because I've not used it in depth, what makes NSString
so good. What does it do that Haskell's Text and other languages' string
types don't do?
First-class interaction with grapheme clusters (which it calls composed
On 2012-03-19, at 18:28 , Graydon Hoare wrote:
The longer answer is that we're familiar with the CL condition system as well
as a number of alternatives, and need to spend some time exploring to find
what fits the Rust semantics best. I spent quite a while sketching,
prototyping and
On 2012-04-08, at 23:21 , Niko Matsakis wrote:
On 4/8/12 12:15 PM, Stefan Plantikow wrote:
Hi,
I was thinking about this, too. One of the state-of-the art algorithms seems
to be hopscotch hashing, wikipedia has a quite good introduction to it.
Even though it has been developed for
I was reading
http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2012/04/09/rusts-object-system/
today, and saw the description of the classes definition.
Next to it, Nicholas notes:
I am not fond of the definition of constructors, in particular
I can only agree, for a simple reason: the example is
On 2012-10-14, at 19:48 , Yiannis Tsiouris wrote:
Hi,
The build includes not only all of LLVM, but Clang as well.
Sorry if this is something obvious, but why is clang *needed* for Rust?
Without looking into the makefiles (so this really is nothing more than
a guess): rust calls llvm's
On 2012-10-14, at 21:16 , Patrick Walton wrote:
* Rust builds itself three times for bootstrapping. This is unavoidable as
long as Rust is bootstrapped.
Aren't the second and third builds for sanity-checking purpose? Surely
if (when) Rust is mature and distributed as a tarball for
On 2012-10-19, at 03:05 , Daniel Patterson wrote:
I'm announcing an initial version of an API search tool for Rust called
Rustle. It is inspired by the api search tool for Haskell
called Hoogle (http://www.haskell.org/hoogle).
Haskell's community also has Hayoo[0], which is less focused on
On 2013-04-05, at 23:01 , Valentin Gosu wrote:
On 5 April 2013 22:51, Steve Klabnik st...@steveklabnik.com wrote:
More on the ffi docs that specifically shows callback examples would
be useful.
I think working examples for every function and structure described in the
docs would be
On 2013-04-05, at 23:35 , Brian Anderson wrote:
On 04/05/2013 02:32 PM, Jack Moffitt wrote:
rustfix is high on everybody's list of things we would like to have. it's a
sizeable and difficult project though.
Since I don't think something that could have ported servo is likely
to ever exist,
On 2013-05-05, at 22:19 , Noam Yorav-Raphael wrote:
Hello,
My name is Noam Yorav-Raphael. I find Rust to be a really exciting language!
I have a simple suggestion: the current implementation of zip() returns an
iterator which stops whenever one of the two iterators it gets stop.
I use
On 5 mai 2013, at 22:51, Daniel Micay danielmi...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Masklinn maskl...@masklinn.net wrote:
Now here's the question, to which I don't have an answer but which will
tell you whether your suggestion makes sense ― at least when compared
to existing
On 5 mai 2013, at 23:00, Noam Yorav-Raphael noamr...@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed you can. But do you think of a useful, common use case?
I think it's a useful feature. Common is not really relevant and will depend
on your coding style.
Starting to count from 0 is indeed very useful, but you can
On 2013-05-19, at 15:59 , Masklinn wrote:
[8] that would give the documentation code-coloration for free as well,
since there is already a Rust lexer in Pygments:
http://pygments.org/demo/81135/, though of course Rust support
can also be added to Pandoc.
And apparently it's already
On 2013-05-20, at 07:52 , Jeaye wrote:
On 05/19/2013 02:09 PM, Lucian Branescu wrote:
I don't see it either, fwiw.
Ok, so I'm not crazy. I was wondering the exact same thing. Can we get the
original message sent to the list, Masklinn?
It has been but it's apparently got caught in some
On 2013-05-20, at 07:52 , Jeaye wrote:
On 05/19/2013 02:09 PM, Lucian Branescu wrote:
I don't see it either, fwiw.
Ok, so I'm not crazy. I was wondering the exact same thing. Can we get the
original message sent to the list, Masklinn?
Yesterday as I was trying to provide more info
On 2013-05-23, at 14:28 , Benjamin Striegel wrote:
There's no generalized notation, but a while ago I overloaded the +
operator on Option such that it automatically unwraps them, adds the
contained elements together (for any two types that implement Add), and
returns a wrapped result.
On 2013-05-29, at 07:17 , Alex Crichton wrote:
In my opinion, rusti gets the job done. Yes, having in-memory compiled state
would work a lot better. But I don't know how viable that is. I know for a
fact that a big feature plan is to have the compiler only partially compile
when applicable,
On 2013-06-20, at 00:11 , Corey Richardson wrote:
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Masklinn maskl...@masklinn.net wrote:
On 2013-06-19, at 22:01 , Corey Richardson wrote:
I am going to rewrite and redesign rustdoc. Current bikeshed:
https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Bikeshed-rustdoc
On 2013-06-21, at 03:02 , Brian Anderson wrote:
On 06/20/2013 04:44 PM, Daniel Micay wrote:
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Brian Anderson bander...@mozilla.com
wrote:
Regarding HTML generation, I think we should not lean on pandoc so heavily.
rustdoc currently produces a page of markdown
On 2013-07-29, at 11:04 , Huon Wilson wrote:
On 29/07/13 18:26, Masklinn wrote:
I don't have much to say, but
On 2013-07-29, at 06:24 , Alex Crichton wrote:
* Any argument can be selected (0-indexed from the start)
keyword/named selection is *really* great for longer/more busy patterns
On 2013-08-14, at 10:15 , Archos wrote:
But now, Google has opened-sources Gumbo, a C Library for Parsing HTML5.
So it could be used until that somebody builds a parser in pure Rust.
https://github.com/google/gumbo-parser
That’s cool, but what would it buy us to switch from one C
On 23 août 2013, at 12:44, Chris Morgan m...@chrismorgan.info wrote:
https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/5992
(Coming from a Python background I know the concept as augmented
assignment; they are also known as assignment operators. Or just +=,
^=, = and the like.)
I want augmented
On 2013-09-19, at 22:36 , Kevin Ballard wrote:
I welcome any comments, criticisms, or suggestions.
* C# also has rawstrings, which were not looked at. C#'s rawstrings
disable escaping entirely but add a new one: doubling quotes will insert
a single quote in the resulting string (similar to
On 2013-09-19, at 23:45 , Kevin Ballard wrote:
Yes I know, but in my (rather limited) experience with Python, triple-quoted
strings are typically used for docstrings. It was just an example anyway.
They're also commonly used for multiline strings as single-quoted strings don't
require it.
On 2013-09-20, at 10:26 , Marijn Haverbeke wrote:
If I need to embed both ''' and in a string, I'm out of luck.
The chance of that is as remote as can be. I've never seen or heard of
it happen. And mind, the issue must happen *in a rawstring* which is
even more unlikely.
You should note
On 2013-09-25, at 17:29 , Patrick Walton wrote:
Multiple return values
if has a function like this:
fn addsub(x : int, y : int) - (int, int) {
return (x+y,x-y);
}
them, this is valid:
let (b,c) = addsub(x, y);
but this is invalid;
let b:int =0;
let c:int =0;
(b,c) =
On 2013-10-02, at 08:51 , Corey Richardson wrote:
Saw this on HN:
https://docs.google.com/a/octayn.net/document/d/1bMwCey-gmqZVTpRax-ESeVuZGmjwbocYs1iHplK-cjo/pub
I haven't been following the recent closure discussions much, but what
Go is doing might be relevant?
FWIW, various commenters
On 2013-11-20, at 11:16 , Gaetan gae...@xeberon.net wrote:
actually that was what I was expected, sorry I'm not very confortable with
slices yet.
It should not allocate, indeed, there is no reason. Python doesn’t allocate
but the way it handle items, it doesn’t really behave like rust's
On 2013-12-11, at 15:24 , Gaetan gae...@xeberon.net wrote:
I'll be glad volunteering for this task, however I'm new in rust so I may
need to have some mentoring for this...
I would be inspired by the python interface:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/MySQL-python/1.2.4
A better inspiration
On 2014-01-04, at 21:45 , Patrick Walton pwal...@mozilla.com wrote:
I would love to have a TOML parser. I've always had a bit of a fondness for
the INI format, despite its limitations, and TOML looks like the best of both
worlds (the expressivity of JSON and the simplicity and readability of
On 2014-03-04, at 21:37 , John Mija jon...@proinbox.com wrote:
El 04/03/14 20:24, Daniel Micay escribió:
On 04/03/14 02:43 PM, John Mija wrote:
So, why don't use a simple language but safe like Go?
Go isn't safe. It has data races.
True, but Go includes a built-in data race detector:
On 2014-05-28, at 11:10 , Aravinda VK hallimanearav...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
How to find number of characters in a string?
Problem 1: define character. Do you mean a glyph? A grapheme cluster? A
code point? Composed or decomposed?
Problem 2: what use is knowing the length of a string?
On 2014-05-29, at 08:37 , Aravinda VK hallimanearav...@gmail.com wrote:
I think returning length of string in bytes is just fine. Since I didn't know
about the availability of char_len in rust caused this confusion.
python 2.7 - Returns length of string in bytes, Python 3 returns number of
On 2014-06-22, at 23:31 , Daniel Micay danielmi...@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/06/14 05:09 PM, Rick Richardson wrote:
Apologies if this has been suggested, but would it be possible to have a
compiler switch that can add runtime checks and abort on
overflow/underflow/carry for debugging purposes,
On 2014-07-15, at 13:51 , Steve Klabnik st...@steveklabnik.com wrote:
let z = box(std::gc::Gc) Point::good_new(); // this is a GcPoint,
with no copy.
}
Unless that's changed in 0.11, IIRC that should be box(std::gc::GC).
Which remains weird and annoying, is there any plan to drop the
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