Rust without implicit copies
3 December 2011
I just posted a draft of a proposal for Rust that aims to eliminate implicit copies. At the moment, it is not the final version; there are some flaws I need to correct. For one thing, I need to address implicit capturing of variables by lambdas.
From the introduction:
This is a proposal for Rust whose purpose is to eliminate implicit copies of aggregate types, while preserving most other aspects of the language. Secondary goals include:
- permit references into arrays;
- make destination passing style (DPS) a guaranteed optimization that is obvious from language syntax;
- support dynamically sized records.