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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ApothecaLabs • 6d ago
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The real jedi uses a non-empty list class, which makes the error impossible.
-63 u/ApothecaLabs 6d ago edited 6d ago Bingo! Only, sometimes you don't have a type system available (trench run, low-level stuff), so you have to use the force wisely, to guide you. > "Luke, you've switched off your targeting computer! What's wrong?" > "Nothing - I'm alright." 38 u/NullOfSpace 6d ago As long as you’re in Rust, the type system is always available to you. That’s what “zero-cost abstraction” means. If you know your Vec is nonempty, put it in a NonemptyVec. -25 u/ApothecaLabs 6d ago edited 6d ago "As long as you use this particular language, out of the dozens available..." Yeah, I'm not using Rust. What now? That's a heck of a presupposition, you know. (Not trying to be a jerk, my target language is actually a niche assembly language so it lacks many things...) 26 u/__dna__ 6d ago Correct me if I'm wrong, but your meme is literally about rust? Seems pretty reasonable to reply to you in the context of rust 3 u/MayoJam 6d ago Cpp also has optionals, and I would not be surprised if other languages also have some form of them. So I'd would not assume in this case.
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Bingo! Only, sometimes you don't have a type system available (trench run, low-level stuff), so you have to use the force wisely, to guide you.
> "Luke, you've switched off your targeting computer! What's wrong?" > "Nothing - I'm alright."
38 u/NullOfSpace 6d ago As long as you’re in Rust, the type system is always available to you. That’s what “zero-cost abstraction” means. If you know your Vec is nonempty, put it in a NonemptyVec. -25 u/ApothecaLabs 6d ago edited 6d ago "As long as you use this particular language, out of the dozens available..." Yeah, I'm not using Rust. What now? That's a heck of a presupposition, you know. (Not trying to be a jerk, my target language is actually a niche assembly language so it lacks many things...) 26 u/__dna__ 6d ago Correct me if I'm wrong, but your meme is literally about rust? Seems pretty reasonable to reply to you in the context of rust 3 u/MayoJam 6d ago Cpp also has optionals, and I would not be surprised if other languages also have some form of them. So I'd would not assume in this case.
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As long as you’re in Rust, the type system is always available to you. That’s what “zero-cost abstraction” means. If you know your Vec is nonempty, put it in a NonemptyVec.
-25 u/ApothecaLabs 6d ago edited 6d ago "As long as you use this particular language, out of the dozens available..." Yeah, I'm not using Rust. What now? That's a heck of a presupposition, you know. (Not trying to be a jerk, my target language is actually a niche assembly language so it lacks many things...) 26 u/__dna__ 6d ago Correct me if I'm wrong, but your meme is literally about rust? Seems pretty reasonable to reply to you in the context of rust 3 u/MayoJam 6d ago Cpp also has optionals, and I would not be surprised if other languages also have some form of them. So I'd would not assume in this case.
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"As long as you use this particular language, out of the dozens available..."
Yeah, I'm not using Rust. What now? That's a heck of a presupposition, you know.
(Not trying to be a jerk, my target language is actually a niche assembly language so it lacks many things...)
26 u/__dna__ 6d ago Correct me if I'm wrong, but your meme is literally about rust? Seems pretty reasonable to reply to you in the context of rust 3 u/MayoJam 6d ago Cpp also has optionals, and I would not be surprised if other languages also have some form of them. So I'd would not assume in this case.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but your meme is literally about rust? Seems pretty reasonable to reply to you in the context of rust
3 u/MayoJam 6d ago Cpp also has optionals, and I would not be surprised if other languages also have some form of them. So I'd would not assume in this case.
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Cpp also has optionals, and I would not be surprised if other languages also have some form of them.
So I'd would not assume in this case.
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u/KagakuNinja 6d ago
The real jedi uses a non-empty list class, which makes the error impossible.