In the latest Rust upgrade for Servo, I noticed that the path API is
now mutate-in-place instead of return a new path. It used to be that
path.push("foo") gave you a new path with an extra component, but now
path.push("foo") returns () and mutates the path in place.I liked the old API better. I realize this is probably more consistent with std::vec, and consistency is good. I thought I'd bring this up to see what other people thought as a lot of the APIs are getting rewritten lately and I haven't seen any concrete guidelines on what they should be. If we decide that both API styles are good to have, what should the naming convention be for the functional vs. mutable ones? Ruby, Scheme, and Clojure use `!` to denote the in-place mutation ones, but that syntax is for macros in rust. jack. _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
