This is a follow-up to #5761. Its purpose is to make core::libc more consistent - it currently only defines SIGKILL and SIGTERM, because they are the only values that happen to be needed by libcore.
This adds all the posix signal value constants, except for those that have different values on different architectures.
The output of the command `man 7 signal` was used to compile these signal values.
value constants, except for those that have different values
on different architectures.
The output of the command `man 7 signal` was used to
compile these signal values.
The foldl based implementation allocates lots of unneeded vectors.
iter::map_to_vec is already optimized to avoid these.
One place that benefits quite a lot from this is the metadata decoder, helping with compile times for tiny programs.
The current protocol is very comparable to Python, where `.__iter__()` returns an iterator object which implements `.__next__()` and throws `StopIteration` on completion. `Option` is much cleaner than using a exceptions as a flow control hack though. It requires that the container is frozen so there's no worry about invalidating them.
Advantages over internal iterators, which are functions that are passed closures and directly implement the iteration protocol:
* Iteration is stateful, so you can interleave iteration over arbitrary containers. That's needed to implement algorithms like zip, merge, set union, set intersection, set difference and symmetric difference. I already used this internally in the `TreeMap` and `TreeSet` implementations, but regions and traits weren't solid enough to make it generic yet.
* They provide a universal, generic interface. The same trait is used for a forward/reverse iterator, an iterator over a range, etc. Internal iterators end up resulting in a trait for each possible way you could iterate.
* They can be composed with adaptors like `ZipIterator`, which also implement the same trait themselves.
The disadvantage is that they're a pain to write without support from the compiler for compiling something like `yield` to a state machine. :)
This can coexist alongside internal iterators since both can use the current `for` protocol. It's easier to write an internal iterator, but external ones are far more powerful/useful so they should probably be provided whenever possible by the standard library.
## Current issues
#5801 is somewhat annoying since explicit type hints are required.
I just wanted to get the essentials working well, so I haven't put much thought into making the naming concise (free functions vs. static `new` methods, etc.).
Making an `Iterable` trait seems like it will have to be a long-term goal, requiring type system extensions. At least without resorting to objects which would probably be unacceptably slow.
This restores the trait that was lost in 216e85fadf. `Num` will eventually be broken up into a more fine-grained trait hierarchy in the future once a design can be agreed upon.
To contribute to the discussion about the future of Rust's numeric traits, please see issue #4819 and the [wiki page](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Bikeshed-Numeric-Traits).
I have also switched to [implementing NumCast using macros](353ce872e2). This removes a significant number of lines of code.
Mostly just phrasing things differently, which is a matter of taste. Feel free to use or not use any of the changes I'm suggesting.
I would say this one thing should be changed, though, not necessarily the way I changed it here.
* Convert any string (literal, `@`, `&`, `~`)
* that contains a base64 encoded value, to the byte values it encodes.
If this structure is going to be used, either the entire clause, 'that contains a base64 encoded value', should be bracketed by commas, or the comma at the end of the clause should be removed.
This restores the trait that was lost in 216e85fadf. It will eventually be broken up into a more fine-grained trait hierarchy in the future once a design can be agreed upon.
As proposed in issue #5632.
I added some new stuff to libc - hopefully correctly. I only added a single signal constant (SIGKILL) because adding more seems complicated by differences between platforms - and since it is not required for issue #5632 then I figure that I can use a further pull request to flesh out the SIG* constants more.
Pulled out tests into their own modules inside the files they test,
as per the draft style guidelines.
Started a new module, path_util, for utility functions to do with
paths and directories.
Changed default_dest_dir to use a condition and return Path
instead of Option<Path>.
r? @graydon This is preliminary work on bringing rustpkg up to conformance with #5679
and related issues.
This change makes rustpkg infer a package ID from its containing directory,
instead of requiring name and vers attributes in the code. Many aspects of it
are incomplete; I've only tested one package (see README.txt) and one command,
"build". So far it only works for local packages.
I also removed code for several of the package commands other than "build",
replacing them with stubs that fail, since they used package IDs in ways that
didn't jibe well with the new scheme. I will re-implement the commands one
at a time.
