Impossible in Rust about goal HOT 8 CLOSED

You're not thinking fourth dimensionally

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I'd take that as an argument against it. Please submit a pull request in the same format as the Java one.

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Hmm, actually, would this be acceptable: goal!(g()()("al")) where goal!() is a macro that would transform it into g::new().zero().zero().one("al")?

Also, I'm not planning on writing a PR at this time. So if anybody else wants to write one...

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This is very easy in Rust - just make a compiler plugin to rewrite the AST (e.g. replacing the () with ("o")). The challenge is doing something more elegant.

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Rust isn't even done yet. It may just be impossible now but possible later.

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@Undeterminant I imagine a majority of the languages included are undergoing active development.
I believe 0.11 brought one of the last major syntax reworks, and the 1.0 is scheduled for early next year.

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@gambogi The major syntax reworks mostly had to do with types; although most of the syntax is done, handling of traits, macros, type coercion, and optional argument handling is still under decent debate at the moment. Changes to those could potentially make this problem solvable, even though it currently isn't.

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I came up with two incomplete solutions so far. One is @Havvy's idea of a macro. The other uses [()] and ["al"] instead of () and ("al").

https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=2368a7d7391b863e5de9

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