• jeffhykin@lemm.ee
    37·
    1 year ago

    If you think that’s good, then you’re gonna love this “simplified” real code posted as a real issue on one of my Github repos.

    Edit: updated link to address the stack-trace comment

    • parlaptie@feddit.de
      11·
      1 year ago

      That’s not actual code though, it looks like some kind of trace. Notice the filenames at the end of each line.

      The actual solution the issue opener there might be looking for is to disable C++ parsing, since it’s not actually C++ code, it’s just some text they pasted into VSCode and they’re wondering why their editor can’t handle it.

      • jeffhykin@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        Without thinking about it much, my understanding was that each line of the stack trace referred to a real line, even though the block as a whole wasn’t a program.

        But! because of this comment I went and checked the lines of those stack traces. And in fact, they’re not real lines, just the C++ type expansion.

        That said I’ve got a another half as bad example that is real so Ive edited the comment to point to that example instead.

  • Murdo Maclachlan@lemmy.world
    32·
    1 year ago

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    type Wtf = Option>>>>>>>;
let two = Some(Some(Some(Some(Some(Some(None))))));
let three = Some(Some(Some(Some(Some(None)))));
let six = Some(Some(None));
unsafe {
    assert_eq!(
        std::mem::transmute::(two) * std::mem::transmute::(three)
        std::mem::transmute::(six)
    );
}

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  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
    12·
    1 year ago

    Since all of the expressions just wrap a None, I wouldn’t be surprised if the transmutes basically get compiled to 0, making the assertion at the end assert_eq!(0 * 0, 0).

    • tatterdemalion@programming.devOP
      9·
      1 year ago

      Nah these are the actual integer representations. Otherwise you would have Some(None) == Some(Some(None)) which is way too Javascripty for Rust folks.

      • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
        3·
        1 year ago

        That’s kind of wild, I double-checked and it’s true.

        Although I disagree with the second part, the Rust folks wouldn’t care about the in-memory representation as long as the compilation is on point.

        Looking closer at the final enum, I guess it’s because there are nine possible cases for it, making the compiler pack it into 4 bits, with one number representing each? I checked and None is represented as 8, while 7 Somes containing a None is 0 and the full 8 Somes is represented by 1.

        • tatterdemalion@programming.devOP
          6·
          1 year ago

          the Rust folks wouldn’t care about the in-memory representation as long as the compilation is on point.

          Well I can’t speak for everyone, but Rust is very intentional about supporting things like repr(C). At least some of us care a lot.

    • parlaptie@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s somehow inverted. If it was Peano, two would be represented by two Somes, not by six. I have no idea how this one works.

  • gsfraley@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    For those interested, this is because of how Rust uses value gaps to represent its nullable/enum structures. E.g., like how None for Option NonZeroU8 [sic, can’t get formatting to work] is represented internally by a 0 instead of a wrapping structure.

    When you have that many layers around a unit, it will start at 0 and bump the internal representation for each Some you turn into a None.

    • Knusper@feddit.de
      4·
      1 year ago

      No, not at all. It’s a joke post, abusing the in-memory representation of the Option type to construct numbers. When nesting the Option type, it turns into a densely packed bit vector…

      And if I understand the purpose of Fin correctly, you’re picking on the one ‘peasant language’ that actually has something like that built-in.
      In Rust, you can specify the type of an array as e.g [u8; 3]. Which is an array containing values of type u8 (unsigned 8-bit integer) with a fixed, compile-time-guaranteed length of 3. So, [u8; 3] could be used to represent an RGB color, for example.
      It is an array, not a set, but well, close enough.

      • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
        3·
        1 year ago

        Fin is a type of finite oridinals bounded by a nat. For example the WTF type in there is the same type as Fin 8.

        Of course every language can have Fin with a fixed integer, like the post suggest, by just stacking options.

        However for a properly defined Fin type, the input number is dynamic, serves as a bound for the element of the type. For example, Adga was able to type the fact that nth fibonacci number is a finite ordinal bounded by a function of n. Which I believe is not typable in rust?