alt Hacker NewsIf we start creating more `&... T` ptr types I wonder if a future edition changes `*const T` to `&raw T` for consistency...
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steveklabnik • yesterday at 7:21 PM
Ehhh it’s already consistent: ones with & borrow, ones without do not.
If we start creating more `&... T` ptr types I wonder if a future edition changes `*const T` to `&raw T` for consistency...
Ehhh it’s already consistent: ones with & borrow, ones without do not.
I'm hoping that languages move away from the sigil-ified legacy of C treating pointers as special syntax and just start calling these `Ref<T>`, `PtrConst<T>`, etc.