This commit is an implementation of [RFC 503][rfc] which is a stabilization
story for the prelude. Most of the RFC was directly applied, removing reexports.
Some reexports are kept around, however:
* `range` remains until range syntax has landed to reduce churn.
* `Path` and `GenericPath` remain until path reform lands. This is done to
prevent many imports of `GenericPath` which will soon be removed.
* All `io` traits remain until I/O reform lands so imports can be rewritten all
at once to `std::io::prelude::*`.
This is a breaking change because many prelude reexports have been removed, and
the RFC can be consulted for the exact list of removed reexports, as well as to
find the locations of where to import them.
[rfc]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0503-prelude-stabilization.md
[breaking-change]
Closes#20068
* Added `// no-pretty-expanded` to pretty-print a test, but not run it through
the `expanded` variant.
* Removed #[deriving] and other expanded attributes after they are expanded
* Removed hacks around &str and &&str and friends (from both the parser and the
pretty printer).
* Un-ignored a bunch of tests
`Times::times` was always a second-class loop because it did not support the `break` and `continue` operations. Its playful appeal was then lost after `do` was disabled for closures. It's time to let this one go.
It is simply defined as `f64` across every platform right now.
A use case hasn't been presented for a `float` type defined as the
highest precision floating point type implemented in hardware on the
platform. Performance-wise, using the smallest precision correct for the
use case greatly saves on cache space and allows for fitting more
numbers into SSE/AVX registers.
If there was a use case, this could be implemented as simply a type
alias or a struct thanks to `#[cfg(...)]`.
Closes#6592
The mailing list thread, for reference:
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-July/004632.html
Change the former repetition::
for 5.times { }
to::
do 5.times { }
.times() cannot be broken with `break` or `return` anymore; for those
cases, use a numerical range loop instead.
This method is intended to elegantly subsume two common iteration functions.
The first is `iter::range`, which is used identically to the method introduced
in this commit, but currently works only on uints. The second is a common case
of `{int, i8, uint, etc.}::range`, in the case where the inductive variable is
ignored. Compare the usage of the three:
```
for iter::range(100u) {
// do whatever
}
for int::range(0, 100) |_i| {
// do whatever
}
for 100.times {
// do whatever
}
```
I feel that the latter reads much more nicely than the first two approaches,
and unlike the first two the new method allows the user to ignore the specific
type of the number (ineed, if we're throwing away the inductive variable, who
cares what type it is?). A minor benefit is that this new method will be
somewhat familiar to users of Ruby, from which we borrow the name "times".
Each numeric type now contains an extensions module that is automatically
exported. At the moment each extensions module contains only the impl for the
`num::num` iface. Other impls soon to follow (hopefully).
