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Getting rid of the syntactic difference between moving and copying seems like a huge step backwards. Ditto with abandoning mailing lists for some wanky "already
by lacampbell 10y ago
Getting rid of the syntactic difference between moving and copying seems like a huge step backwards. Ditto with abandoning mailing lists for some wanky "already solved-as-a-service" web app.
- pcwalton 10y ago> Getting rid of the syntactic difference between moving and copying seems like a huge step backwards. Did you ever use Rust back when you had to write "move"? I did. When you wrote stuff like: let (move x, move y) = (move z.a, (move z.b).append(move z.c)); It got old fast.
- Gankro 10y agoAdmittedly there's still a syntactic difference between move and copy -- with Swift and C++'s definition of copy. Rust calls that Clone, though. :)