Awesome use of unreachable!

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Peter Marheine <[email protected]> wrote:

> I had a go at building a macro to do this sort of thing, and it turned
> out to be easier than I expected.
>
> https://gist.github.com/tari/10144385
>
> Use like this:
>     let x = match_bitfield!(do_something(), bits 4 to 8 {
>         0 => DivideBy1,
>         1 => DivideBy2,
>         2 => DivideBy4,
>         _ => UnknownDivisor
>     };
>
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 7:11 AM, Vladimir Pouzanov <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I've submitted an RFC for this one:
> > https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/29
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Bill Myers <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I think the best solution is to add uN and sN types where N is not a
> power
> >> of two, which LLVM should already support.
> >>
> >> Then you can write your match like this:
> >> match (val >> 6) as u2
> >> {
> >>   ...
> >> }
> >>
> >> And it will work as desired.
> >>
> >> Biggest issue is that to make it work nicely you'd need to add some way
> to
> >> generalize over the bit-length and integers, and that's going to require
> >> generics with int parameters and work to add those.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Sincerely,
> > Vladimir "Farcaller" Pouzanov
> > http://farcaller.net/
> >
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> >
>
>
>
> --
> Peter Marheine
> Don't Panic
>



-- 
Sincerely,
Vladimir "Farcaller" Pouzanov
http://farcaller.net/
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