Re:Rust needs to run, and be easy to use, on every platform
by masklinn on Thursday March 08, 2018 @03:00PM
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> Typed that out too fast, yes, that's my problem. * String is one thing but String.deref() is another. But * is the dereference operator.
They're the same thing, Deref::deref() is just the operation which underlies the dereferencing operator.
Either way I don't see what's problematic about a string buffer deref'ing to a string.
Typed that out too fast, yes, that's my problem. * String is one thing but String.deref() is another. But * is the dereference operator. Operator overloading ftw ;)
> What you're looking for is TryFrom/TryInto which are still not done 2 years into the RFC: https://github.com/sfackler/rfcs/blob/try-from/text/0000-try....
Sorry, yes, I actually opened an issue with my suggestions regarding that one with particular focus on the fallible vs infallible nature: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2143