On Jun 21, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Nick Cameron <li...@ncameron.org> wrote:
> Ownership does not always work, graphs often appear in programming. When they > do, you have to use Rc or Gc to cope. We shouldn't punish programmers who > have these problems to deal with. Telling them to use ownership is pointless > if your data is not hierarchical. In this situation, we are not encouraging > users to use ownership instead of ref counting, we are encouraging them to > use garbage collection, even when that is not the optimal solution for their > problem. Rust doesn’t actually have a solution for general graph data structures besides “store the vertex data in arrays and pass around indices”. In many cases you can’t use Rc/Weak. I think this will be a significant limitation of Rust going forward. Cameron _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
