Eh, I'm as fine with `box` as I am with `new`. Does seem a bit like jargon, though. Though maybe it will herald a return to the days when we really played up the "shipping container" flavor. Crates and cargo, anyone? :)
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Patrick Walton <pcwal...@mozilla.com>wrote: > On 11/30/13 6:49 PM, Corey Richardson wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Kevin Ballard <ke...@sb.org> wrote: >> >>> 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? >>> >>> >> I'll admit, I don't find the "confusing" argument very convincing. I >> just think `box` looks better than `~`. >> > > I'm warming up to this idea -- `box 10` does make more sense than `new 10`. > > Patrick > > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > Rust-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev >
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