I'm still very much a fan of leaving ~ as the allocation operator. Despite what Patrick says, I'm pretty sure the reason why users are confused about it is purely due to sub-par documentation, and not due to any actual inherent problems with using a non-alphabetic symbol as an operator. Heck, we have plenty of other non-alphabetic operators that don't cause confusion, why is this one special?
That said, of all the alternative proposals, `box` seems the most sensible to me. -Kevin On Nov 30, 2013, at 5:54 PM, Corey Richardson <co...@octayn.net> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Florian Zeitz <flo...@babelmonkeys.de> wrote: >> Personally I would suggest calling this operator `box`, since it "boxes" >> its argument into a newly allocated memory box. >> > > I really like this proposal. I've watched this thread and the original > `new` proposal with indifference, but `box` really makes sense to me. > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > Rust-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
