little_ferris@programming.dev to Rust@programming.devEnglish · edit-229 days agoWhat are some mind blowing Rust tricks?message-squaremessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up166arrow-down1message-squareWhat are some mind blowing Rust tricks?little_ferris@programming.dev to Rust@programming.devEnglish · edit-229 days agomessage-square52fedilinkfile-text
If we were to create a Rust version of this page for Haskell, what cool programming techniques would you add to it?
minus-squareSorteKanin@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up23·29 days agoIt’s a test for the compiler which ensures that these legal yet extremely weird expressions continue to compile as the compiler is updated. So there is a purpose to the madness but it does still look pretty funny.
minus-squarenilloc@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·28 days agoThat’s make sense. We used to write some ridiculous tests too, but users still managed to find a way fn union() { union union<'union> { union: &'union union<'union>, } } Is my favorite.
It’s a test for the compiler which ensures that these legal yet extremely weird expressions continue to compile as the compiler is updated. So there is a purpose to the madness but it does still look pretty funny.
That’s make sense. We used to write some ridiculous tests too, but users still managed to find a way
fn union() { union union<'union> { union: &'union union<'union>, } }Is my favorite.