Daily Tag 08/04/2016

• Traits

  • generic functions with a trait bound use ‘monomorphization’ (mono: one, morph: form), so they are statically dispatched.
  • This shows off the additional feature of where clauses: they allow bounds on the left-hand side not only of type parameters T, but also of types

• Method Syntax

  • self if it’s a value on the stack, &self if it’s a reference, and &mut self if it’s a mutable reference.
  • Rust doesn’t have method overloading, named arguments, or variable arguments.

• Home · fluxcapacitor/pipeline Wiki

  tags: pancake stack pipeline

• Learn Vimscript the Hard Way

  tags: learn vim hard way

• Ownership

  • When we move v to v2, Rust actually does a bitwise copy of the vector object v into the stack allocation represented by v2. This shallow copy does not create a copy of the heap allocation containing the actual data. Which means that there would be two pointers to the contents of the vector both pointing to the same memory allocation on the heap.

• Zero-Overhead Metaprogramming: Reflection and Metaobject Protocols Fast and without Compromises

  tags: zero overhead meta programming

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