really excited about the Rust alloca! RFC (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1808 …); it'll make it possible to allocate a linked list or a tree w/o heap...
Yes. Recursion considered harmful. (Sshhh, don't tell the functional crowd.)
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languages that cannot manage their stack properly considered harmful ;p
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If you want a "managed stack", there go your performance benefits over using an allocator. :-)
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whut? I want reliable stack overflow checking, that's it
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Overflow checking that traps/crashes is easy. Making () operator something that can fail & report failure is not.
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I plan to reserve space for unwinder state and unwind from the prologue, if panicking is enabled
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if unwinding on panicking is enabled* (if not then any panic at all will crash the process anyway)
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Doesn't sound like a plan for producing robust sw with good ux...
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do you understand how error handling generally works in Rust? if not I suggest reading up on it
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