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> Rust is actually really unique among imperative languages in its general composability Can you compare it to some other imperative language? Because I really
by gf000 8mo ago
> Rust is actually really unique among imperative languages in its general composability
Can you compare it to some other imperative language? Because I really don't see anything particularly notable in Rust that would give it this property.
- simonask 8mo agoI’m mainly comparing to the progeny of C, where the biggest difference is the fact that almost everything is an expression in Rust. No need for ternary operators. C# unsafe blocks can only appear as statements (so you cannot delegate from a safe to an unsafe constructor, e.g.). C++ cannot return from the middle of an expression. A related aspect is the type system, which composes with expressions in really interesting ways, so things like constant array sizes can be inferred.