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+Title: This Week in Rust 40
+Date: 2014-03-11 23:45
+Category: This Week in Rust
+
+
+Hello and welcome to another issue of *This Week in Rust*!
+[Rust](http://rust-lang.org) is a systems language pursuing the trifecta:
+safe, concurrent, and fast. This is a weekly summary of its progress and
+community. Want something mentioned? [Send me an
+email!](mailto:corey@octayn.net?subject=This%20Week%20in%20Rust%20Suggestion)
+Want to get involved? [We love
+contributions](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Note-guide-for-new-contributors).
+
+This week was the Winter Workweek.
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+# What's cooking on master?
+
+66 pull requests were merged this week.
+
+## Breaking Changes
+
+- `Any` [has been cleaned up](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/12667), and
+in particular the `as_void_ptr` and `as_mut_void_ptr` methods are gone.
+- Patterns are [no longer allowed in extern function
+declarations](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/12715). Previously, they
+either silently passed or ICEd.
+- Comparison traits [have been
+reworked](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/12520).
+- DeepClone [has been removed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/12706).
+- Compound assignment (eg, `+=`) [is no longer
+allowed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/12733) on potentially
+uninitialized variables.
+- `std::rand` [has been moved into a
+`librand`](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/12650).
+- debuginfo flags [have changed
+slightly](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/12714), and more limited
+debuginfo is supported again (only line number information).
+
+## Other Changes
+
+- Dereferencing [is now
+overloadable](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/12491). This is another
+part of the smart pointer changes. Code like `let x = *Rc::new(5);` is now
+valid. There is a follow-up pull request that will automatically dereference
+smart pointers where appropriate, to avoid expressions like
+`foo.borrow().get().borrow_mut().get()`.
+- Hexadecimal floating point literals [are now
+available](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/12652) through a syntax
+extension.
+- Support for creating binary installer tarballs [has
+landed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/12793).
+- Linker arguments [are no longer
+deduplicated](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/12688).
+- Weak linkage etc [is now
+possible](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/12556) via a `linkage`
+attribute.
+
+## New Contributors
+
+- Dmitry Promsky
+- Mike Boutin
+- Robert Gawdzik
+
+# Weekly Meeting
+
+There was no weekly meeting due to the workweek. There are [notes and
+minutes](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Meeting-workweek-2014-03-03),
+however, and there will be many [RFCs](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs) from
+it.
+
+# Announcements, etc
+
+- [Leveraging tuples to make a statically-typed, concatenative
+EDSL](http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/20143y/leveraging_tuples_to_make_a_statically_typed/)
+- [Subtyping and coercion in
+Rust](http://featherweightmusings.blogspot.com/2014/03/subtyping-and-coercion-in-rust.html)
+- [Rust support for the Atom
+editor](http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1ztahv/rust_language_support_in_atom/)