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Vector reform #2653

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msullivan opened this issue Jun 20, 2012 · 4 comments
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Vector reform #2653

msullivan opened this issue Jun 20, 2012 · 4 comments
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A-codegen Area: Code generation A-frontend Area: Compiler frontend (errors, parsing and HIR) A-grammar Area: The grammar of Rust A-runtime Area: std's runtime and "pre-main" init for handling backtraces, unwinds, stack overflows A-type-system Area: Type system C-enhancement Category: An issue proposing an enhancement or a PR with one. E-hard Call for participation: Hard difficulty. Experience needed to fix: A lot.
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Reform how we handle vectors by introducing a new unboxed dynamically sized vector type and replacing uses of current vectors with boxed dynamically sized vectors.

Syntax still needs to be chosen and we need to determine exactly what restrictions we are going to place on dynamically sized types.

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I've become disillusioned with the idea of having real dynamically sized types for vectors. I don't really see any major win. The big thing seems to be that we can make our evec syntax ~[] and @[] in a principled and compositional way.
Even so, a lot of special casing will still be required, and we need to deal with adding a notion of dynamically sized types to the type system and figuring out what operations will be permitted on them. It seems to me that it will increase implementation complexity, not decrease it, and won't provide any real user facing benefit.

I think that what we want to do is leave the type system as is but make ~[] and @[] be special cased to be syntax for evecs.

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graydon commented Jun 26, 2012

Also need either a syntax for fixed size interior vectors, or the supertype-of-tuples thing niko suggested, at minimum.

Careful with all type-name substitutions, too.

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graydon commented Jun 26, 2012

... And special cases for function environment-capture types.

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I think all of the core parts of vector reform are done. I'm going to close the bug.

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A-codegen Area: Code generation A-frontend Area: Compiler frontend (errors, parsing and HIR) A-grammar Area: The grammar of Rust A-runtime Area: std's runtime and "pre-main" init for handling backtraces, unwinds, stack overflows A-type-system Area: Type system C-enhancement Category: An issue proposing an enhancement or a PR with one. E-hard Call for participation: Hard difficulty. Experience needed to fix: A lot.
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