I think the 'new(place) expr' or 'box(place) expr' is pretty confusing syntax. To me, it's not at all clear that "new(varA) varB" means "eval varB and put it into varA" instead of "eval varA and put it into varB". I'd much prefer syntax that makes it very clear which is the expression and which is the place. Personally, I like ~ so I'd like "~expr in place", but if people absolutely insist on scrapping ~ then I'd suggest "put expr in place". In either case, I think keeping ~ as sugar for allocating on the exchange heap would be nice (i.e. "~expr" is sugar for "~expr in Unique" or "put expr in Unique"). I guess we could use "new" or "box" instead of "put", but I like "put" over either.
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 6:31 AM, Tiffany Bennett <tiff...@stormbit.net>wrote: > I agree with the `box` name, it's far less jarring than `new (1+1)`. > > > On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Tim Kuehn <tku...@cmu.edu> wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 8:04 AM, spir <denis.s...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 12/01/2013 02:51 AM, Florian Zeitz wrote: >>> >>>> If I may chime in here. >>>> I agree with Kevin that the different semantics of `new` are more likely >>>> to create confusion, than alleviate it. >>>> >>>> Personally I would suggest calling this operator `box`, since it "boxes" >>>> its argument into a newly allocated memory box. >>>> >>>> After all, these are different semantics from C++'s `new` (and also Go's >>>> `make` AFAICT), therefore, presuming that a sigil is not a sufficient >>>> indicator of a non-stack allocation, using an unprecedented keyword >>>> seems the way to go to me. >>>> >>> >>> +++ to all 3 points >>> >>> Denis >>> >> >> >> I, too, am in favor of the `box` proposal. Short, intuitive, not >> already commonly used. What's not to like? >> >> Cheers, >> Tim >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > Rust-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > >
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