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Re:FOSDEM 2025: The state of Rust trying to catch up with Ad... by lr1970 on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @06:36AM (#43011654)
> Why "BalancedI8"? Because now that we've removed this most negative number (to provide a niche) the remaining value is symmetrical, it goes from -127 to +127

Actually instead of just removing the most negative number i8::MIN you can appropriate its bit patter to denote "missing value" (or "null" if you wish) so that your new data type is symmetric and nicely "nullable".

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Re:FOSDEM 2025: The state of Rust trying to catch up with Ad... by tialaramex on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:46PM (#43016599)
I can't tell whether you don't know what a Rust niche is, or you do but you thought we didn't

In case you didn't know yes, that's how Rust's niches work and so that's what we're talking about in this sub-thread.

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