Rust updates

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Thu Jul 12 11:30:58 PDT 2012


On 7/12/2012 2:42 AM, Marco Leise wrote:
> I understand that some of the examples have better alternatives. What I don't
> understand is why you term this as increased language complexity. This is not
> one of the "why not add" kind of requests. From my point of view the
> complexity is already there through U, UL, I and UI. So completing the set
> with B, UB, S and US seems only logical and solves an existing (attention:
> buzzword ahead) ... *inconsistency*. ;)
>
> To cut a long story short; if I added those suffixes and made a pull request
> would anyone be objected?

I'd object. I've been programming in C, C++ and D for 30 years now, and I use u 
and L suffixes way less than 1% of the time, and have simply never found a use 
for b or s suffixes.

I'm not convinced it solves a real problem.





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