Inline const expressions have been stabilised
Inline const expressions have been stabilised
Stabilisation Report Summary This PR will stabilise inline_const feature in expression position. inline_const_pat is still unstable and will not be stabilised. The feature will allow code like this...
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This is a nice small feature. I'm curious about the commit description:
foo(const { 1 + 1 })
which is roughly desugared into
struct Foo; impl Foo { const FOO: i32 = 1 + 1; } foo(Foo::FOO)
I would have expected it to desugar to something like:
foo({ const TMP: i32 = 1 + 1; TMP })
But I can't seem an explanation why the struct with
impl
is used. I wonder if it has something to do with propagating generics.6 0 ReplyIt's because it has to work in pattern contexts as well, which are not expressions.
10 0 ReplyWait, in pattern context? How? Can you give an example?
2 0 Replyfn foo(x: i32) { match x { const { 3.pow(3) } => println!("three cubed"), _ => {} } }
But it looks like
inline_const_pat
is still unstable, onlyinline_const
in expression position is now stabilized.10 0 Reply
They tested the same strings on that implementation
The code they were looking at was used for writing the table, but they were testing the one that read it (which is instead correct).
though judging by the recent comments someone’s found something.
Yeah that's me :)The translation using an associated const also works when the
const
block uses generic parameters. For example:fn require_zst<T>() { const { assert!(std::mem::size_of::<T>() == 0) } }
This can be written as:
fn require_zst<T>() { struct Foo<T>(PhantomData<T>); impl<T> Foo<T> { const FOO: () = assert!(std::mem::size_of::<T>() == 0); } Foo::<T>::FOO }
However it cannot be written as:
fn require_zst<T>() { const FOO: () = assert!(std::mem::size_of::<T>() == 0); FOO }
Because
const FOO: ()
is an item, thus it is only lexically scoped (i.e. visible) insiderequire_zst
, but does not inherit its generics (thus it cannot useT
).7 0 Reply