Re: [rust-dev] Back to errors, failures and exceptions

2012-06-04 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
On 6/2/12 6:06 PM, Niko Matsakis wrote: On 6/1/12 2:59 AM, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: The other problem is that the function may not have enough information to determine what is locally unrecoverable. I believe that `remove` is a good example of issues whose recoverability depend on the

Re: [rust-dev] Doc-comment syntax

2012-06-04 Thread Gareth Smith
On 02/06/12 16:17, Patrick Walton wrote: I agree completely and have thought the exact same thing in the past. I will bring this up at the next meeting. On 04/06/12 01:52, Brian Anderson wrote: Agreed on all points. The current syntax was just an expedient to get rustdoc working, and the

Re: [rust-dev] Back to errors, failures and exceptions

2012-06-04 Thread Graydon Hoare
On 12-06-01 5:47 AM, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: My main concern is that we would end up with a Rust used in-the-wild without either guidelines, library or mechanism for handling non-fatal issues. Yeah. We'll have to pin down a technique and use it widely through the stdlib when we're

Re: [rust-dev] Cargo proposal - thinking about better ways to represent sources

2012-06-04 Thread Brian Anderson
- Original Message - From: Zack Corr zackcor...@gmail.com To: rust-dev@mozilla.org Sent: Monday, June 4, 2012 4:31:11 AM Subject: [rust-dev] Cargo proposal - thinking about better ways to represent sources Hello everyone, I have committed myself to add dependency support

Re: [rust-dev] Cargo proposal - thinking about better ways to represent sources

2012-06-04 Thread Zack Corr
Why is this extremely bad for usability? Would it be bad if we automatically synced the sources? Well, I just consider having to type `cargo sync` whenever a package changes bad usability. We could have a compromise to make it automatic (see the bottom of the message). url/crates.json -