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Re:So You Want to Rust the Linux Kernel? by quotemstr on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @01:11PM (#28842277)
What do you mean? The core guidelines weren't an attempt to add lifetimes to C++.
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Re:So You Want to Rust the Linux Kernel? by steveklabnik on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @01:39PM (#28842614)
Several aspects of it pertain to lifetimes https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines...
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Re:So You Want to Rust the Linux Kernel? by quotemstr on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @02:47PM (#28843493)
Nevertheless, the core guideline were not an attempt to add lifetimes to C++ at a syntactic level. AFAIK, that's never been tried, and I think the effort would be a valuable complement to Rust.
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