little_ferris@programming.dev to Rust@programming.devEnglish · edit-21 month agoWhat are some mind blowing Rust tricks?message-squaremessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up167arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up165arrow-down1message-squareWhat are some mind blowing Rust tricks?little_ferris@programming.dev to Rust@programming.devEnglish · edit-21 month 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-squareSorteKaninAlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·1 month 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-up8·1 month 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.
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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.