Daily downloads in decline

[Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d]

On 11/06/2015 18:48, Dennis Ritchie wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 17:41:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> It is possible that Walter and Andrei against macro because of this:
>>>
>>> macro_rules! o_O {
>>>      (
>>>          $(
>>>              $x:expr; [ $( $y:expr ),* ]
>>>          );*
>>>      ) => {
>>>          &[ $($( $x + $y ),*),* ]
>>>      }
>>> }
>>>
>>> fn main() {
>>>      let a: &[i32]
>>>          = o_O!(10; [1, 2, 3];
>>>                 20; [4, 5, 6]);
>>>
>>>      assert_eq!(a, [11, 12, 13, 24, 25, 26]);
>>> }
>>>
>>> It looks disgusting! ;)
>>
>> Is that actual Rust code that compiles and runs? -- Andrei
>
> Yes, this code is working. I took it here:
> https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/macros.html#repetition

OMG, and it's not just an obscure example someone came up with, but 
actually a snippet from the official documentation!

That said, it does look a bit less crazy when looking at it with the 
syntax highlighting.

-- 
Bruno Medeiros
https://twitter.com/brunodomedeiros