Rust 1.17 - Hackdot

Re:Rust 1.17 by steveklabnik on Thursday April 27, 2017 @01:55PM (#14213449)

So I should preface this by saying that the Add impl was generally controversial and almost not even implemented, but ended up happening.

In a systems language, allocations matter. As such, people are generally really against hidden allocations in Rust, moreso than in other languages. This totally could have been done, but by requiring a String on the left, you are already in "this is heap allocated" land, and that is much more palpatable for Rust's audience.

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Re:Rust 1.17 by eduren on Thursday April 27, 2017 @02:54PM (#14213839)

>palpatable

=palpable + palatable. Pedantry aside though, I like the word. Maybe it describes something can be palpably palatable.

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Re:Rust 1.17 by steveklabnik on Thursday April 27, 2017 @05:26PM (#14214848)

Ha! Nice catch. Good thing I'm not like, a person who's paid to write words or anything...

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Re:Rust 1.17 by chrismorgan on Thursday April 27, 2017 @06:36PM (#14215391)

You wrote a word! A new word!

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Re:Rust 1.17 by MR_HANDS on Friday April 28, 2017 @07:07AM (#14218424)

or, palpatable could mean 'able to be palpated', which would mean able to be touched carefully with the intent of inspection, especially in medicine.

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Re:Rust 1.17 by jononor on Thursday April 27, 2017 @02:33PM (#14213718)

For someone coming from C++, it will feel similar to std::string("foo") + "bar", which one gets used to pretty quickly.

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