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Title: This Week in Rust 9
Date: 2013-08-04 18:40
Category: This Week in Rust
Hello and welcome to the ninth issue of *This Week in Rust*. This week brings
the new `for` loop, which is very exciting, as well as a bunch of runtime
changes and cleanup.
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# What's cooking on `master`?
Issue churn was +4 this week. A total of 63 PRs were merged (again).
## Breaking Changes
- **The `for` loop now uses external iterators.** This means any code written
to use the old internal iterator protocol will no longer work. See the
[iterator tutorial](http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/tutorial-container.html)
for more information on how to use it. Related pull requests:
[#8141](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8141),
[#8184](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8184),
[#8190](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8190),
[#8244](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8244). A few uses now
require `do` rather than `for` because they cannot/have not been
implemented in terms of external iterators.
- `unsafe` is [no longer allowed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8235)
for functions in `extern` blocks: they are all unsafe.
- The [`extra::dbg` module](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8175) has
been removed.
- `uint::range` and all its friends have been replaced with an [external
iterator](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8216), that is in the
prelude. Code like the following now works:
```
for x in range(0, 10) {
println(x.to_str());
}
```
- The pipes compiler (the thing driving `proto!`) [has been
removed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8170), as it saw limited
use, was very old, and was a significant maintenance burden.
- `PortSet` [has been removed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8164) from
std, as the new scheduler does not support it.
- A bunch of old task APIs [have been
removed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8139), aslo in preparation for
the new schduler.
- `is_utf8` now [rejects overlong
encodings](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8133).
- The iterator adaptors [no longer have the Iterator
suffix](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8090), same with [str and vec
iterators](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8095) as well.
## newrt changes
A bunch of newrt things landed this week, so it gets its own section.
- Some [bugs preventing the arc and sync tests from
passing](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8234) have been fixed.
- The new scheduler now supports [the `SingleThreaded` spawn
mode](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8221).
- A bunch of work with task killing [has
landed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8195).
- Some [major TLS changes](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8116) also
landed.
- Tasks can [now be named](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8158).
- [`select` on newrt pipes](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8008) has
been implemented.
## Notable library additions, bugfixes, and cleanup
- `Map::contains_key` is [now a default
method](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8246) implemented in terms of
`Map::find`
- A `dynamic_lib` segfault [has been
fixed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8219).
- A keyed `HashMap` constructor is [now
exposed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8186) for runtimeless programs
that want to use it.
- The `Str` trait now has an [`into_owned`
method](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8204) to avoid copies when you
already have a `~str`.
- A bunch of [SHA1 and SHA2
cleanup/optimizations](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8174) landed. I
hear that the speed is almost optimal, only a few cycles/byte short of
Intel's optimized implementation.
- Errno coverage has been [significantly expanded for
Linux](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8193). I added all of the ones
that were missing, at least the ones that were present on my system.
- `assert!()` without a message [now does less
allocation](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8150).
- '\' is [no longer treated as a path
separater](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8138) on POSIX system.
- `getopt`'s `opts_str` [has been corrected to use more than just the first
element of the vector](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8135).
- Some more methods [were added](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8115) in
`std::num`.
- An iterator over the offsets of each character in a string [was
added](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8082).
- A bunch of `RandomAccessIterator` implementations [have been
added](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8120).
- `Clone` and `DeepClone` are [now
implemented](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8109) for `extern "Rust"
fn`.
## Notable compiler additions, bugfixes, and cleanup
- A `cfg!` syntax extension [has been
added](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8188) for conditionally running
code based on crate configuration, similar to what `#[cfg]` does for
conditional compilation. It expands into a true/false constant, so LLVM
should optimize out the dead branches.
- Some more codegen tests [have been
added](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8165).
- `copy` [has been removed as a
keyword](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8162).
- Static struct initializers [can now contain
`..base`](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8091) for functional update.
- Take glue [has been unified](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8146) for
unique pointer type.
- Pointer arithmetic is [now implemented with
GEP](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8121) rather than casting to int
and back to the pointer.
- Some more AST types [were
renamed](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8107).
- Cross-crate conditions [now
work](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8185).
## Documentation, tools, and other stuff
- LLVM assertions [can now be
disabled](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8147) with a configure
option.
- Benchmarking can [now be
disabled](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8111) by passing `NO_BENCH=1`
to make.
- `NO_REBUILD` [no longer requires a
re-boostrap](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8110), which should make
debug cycles on libstd much shorter.
- `vec` [now has module
documentation](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/7223).
- rustpkg [now handles tags](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/8032), and
not just version numbers, in the package ID.
# Meetings
The [Tuesday
meeting](https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Meeting-weekly-2013-07-30) this
week was quite meaty. I'm not going to try to summarize it, as it seems no
real decisions were made.
# Discussion + Blog posts
- [Visibility scopes in Rust Debug
Info](http://michaelwoerister.github.io/2013/08/03/visibility-scopes.html).
- [Architecting Servo: Pipelines and
Parallelism](https://air.mozilla.org/2013-intern-kuehn/), a talk by Tim
Kuehn.
- [Runtimeless
sprocketnes](http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1jo431/runtimeless_sprocketnes/).
- [Porting machine learning algorithms to
Rust](http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1joy7f/porting_machine_learning_algorithms_to_rust/).
- [RFC: Overloadable dereference
operator](https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-July/005039.html).
# External projects
- [RustGnuplot](https://github.com/SiegeLord/RustGnuplot) was updated to
latest Rust.
- A [protobuf implementation](https://github.com/stepancheg/rust-protobuf) has
been started.
- [rustsqlite](https://github.com/linuxfood/rustsqlite) has
been updated to latest Rust.
- A [library for HTML escaping](https://github.com/veddan/rust-htmlescape) has
been created.
- A [library for procedurally generating
noise](https://github.com/bjz/noise-rs) has been created.
- A [pure-Rust implementation of
Keccak](https://github.com/MarkJr94/rust-keccak) has been created.
- [rust-zmq](https://github.com/erickt/rust-zmq) has been updated to latest
Rust, as well as cleaner error/constant interface.
- [q3](https://github.com/Jeaye/q3) now does multithreaded rendering.
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