[rust-dev] New wiki pages: roadmap detailed release notes

2012-07-05 Thread Graydon Hoare
Hi, After consultation with the others in mozilla's core rust-developer group, I've published a roadmap for the next few releases, hopefully covering all the user-perturbing features or changes we're intending to land between now and the time we branch off a stable version of the language.

[rust-dev] Usage of 'copy' keyword

2012-07-05 Thread Alexander Stavonin
Can someone give a good enough explanation of 'copy' keyword usage? I can't find it neither in documentation nor tutorial. Regards, Alexander. ___ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev

Re: [rust-dev] Library organization

2012-07-05 Thread Jesse Jones
I didn't mean to do a private reply: my email client does that by default and I don't always remember to fix the reply address. As far as my problem goes I think it's something you guys have a handle on. But to be clear, what I want to do is write a library with a public API yet have the

Re: [rust-dev] Library organization

2012-07-05 Thread Brian Anderson
On 07/05/2012 06:00 PM, Jesse Jones wrote: I didn't mean to do a private reply: my email client does that by default and I don't always remember to fix the reply address. As far as my problem goes I think it's something you guys have a handle on. But to be clear, what I want to do is write a

Re: [rust-dev] Usage of 'copy' keyword

2012-07-05 Thread Brian Anderson
On 07/05/2012 05:35 PM, Alexander Stavonin wrote: Can someone give a good enough explanation of 'copy' keyword usage? I can't find it neither in documentation nor tutorial. In Rust we are trying to make it so that it isn't possible to accidentally make expensive or logically incorrect copies

Re: [rust-dev] New wiki pages: roadmap detailed release notes

2012-07-05 Thread Jesse Jones
Can the difference between the exchange and local heaps be clarified in the release notes? -- Jesse On Jul 5, 2012, at 4:23 PM, Graydon Hoare wrote: Hi, After consultation with the others in mozilla's core rust-developer group, I've published a roadmap for the next few releases,

Re: [rust-dev] Usage of 'copy' keyword

2012-07-05 Thread Alexander Stavonin
Sorry, my fault. I've found everything. 2012/7/6 Alexander Stavonin a.stavo...@gmail.com Can someone give a good enough explanation of 'copy' keyword usage? I can't find it neither in documentation nor tutorial. Regards, Alexander. ___ Rust-dev

Re: [rust-dev] New wiki pages: roadmap detailed release notes

2012-07-05 Thread Benjamin Striegel
I think that eholk's work on reimplementing ports and chans as Singularity-style channel contracts could use a mention, as well as its current status (16x speedup, or something?) On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Jesse Jones jesse9jo...@gmail.com wrote: Can the difference between the exchange

Re: [rust-dev] Library organization

2012-07-05 Thread Zack Corr
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Jesse Jones jesse9jo...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't mean to do a private reply: my email client does that by default and I don't always remember to fix the reply address. As far as my problem goes I think it's something you guys have a handle on. But to be

[rust-dev] Rust Syntax Suggestions

2012-07-05 Thread James Deng
Hi all, I am a language enthusiast. I found that Rust is an elegant combination of procedure, functional and concurrent paradigm, thus can be a promising practical system programming language. Among all that fantastic features, my favorite one is the ad-hoc polymorphism, aka type class from

Re: [rust-dev] Rust Syntax Suggestions

2012-07-05 Thread Tim Chevalier
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:41 PM, James Deng cnjamesd...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am a language enthusiast. I found that Rust is an elegant combination of procedure, functional and concurrent paradigm, thus can be a promising practical system programming language. Among all that fantastic