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Well, only if the DynData didn’t have any methods we would still want to call. So, instead of keeping Arc, we could keep Arc, right?
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I didn’t feel comfortable with that even though the code there is The above in a crate, but it hasn’t been updated for 4 years and seems We could use mopa instead, as it simply wraps After all, it’s what downcast_ref doesīut let’s assume we are not really comfortable with such approach. #! from our project’s header and prove that we didn’t make anyĪccidental mistakes (like extending a lifetime past its expiration date orĬreating multiple mutable references). Then we can just cast the pointers around aīit, read the Rustonomicon, read the Unsafe guidelines, remove We do have the type_id, so we can check if the When one is willing to use these heavy hammers, it is possible to just implementĭowncast_ref ourselves. So, what can we do? The big hammer ‒ use unsafe

Therefore the data.downcast_ref() won’t compile. Methods are specifically for dyn Any or Box. If you paid a very close attention, you’ve noticed that all the downcasting Virtual table) must have the same signature no matter what the real type ofĮnum Either // A lot more boilerplate. Would make the caller really confused ‒ all methods (dispatched through the In particular, it disallows using Self and associated types as these To actually exist, the trait X can’t be too rich (this is called [object
IMyGraphicsI can just provide Java code, but C should be able to do the same via the where keyword. Only through pointers (boxes, Arcs, references, …). But if you do not want to cast all your stuff there, you might be forced to use generics. Voice Boost is very helpful when the speakers vary from really quiet to really loud - it balances the whole thing out.

The most important reason people chose Overcast is: For listening to talk shows, Smart Speed allows you to skip silences and pauses. This makes it hard to manipulate ‒ it can’t be stored on stack, Overcast is ranked 2nd while Downcast is ranked 3rd. While dyn X is a type in its own right, it has an unknown size duringĬompilation. Vtables ‒ lookup tables that are used to decide what method implementation toĬall on that particular value. The values directly, but stores pointers to the data together with pointers to The solution comes in the form of dynamic dispatch. To put both As and Bs into the same HashMap or Vec. Have a trait X and types A and B, static dispatch won’t help if you want An implicit conversion and staticcast can perform this conversion as well.) 2) If the value of expression is the null pointer value. (In other words, dynamiccast can be used to add constness. The downside is, everything all the way up needs to be monomorphized. 1) If the type of expression is exactly new-type or a less cv-qualified version of new-type, the result is the value of expression, with type new-type. Which might eventually produce slightly faster result. ItĪlso knows what exact method will be called, which means they can be inlined, Most importantly, it knows how large the values are to store them on stack.
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Types everywhere can be substituted and the compiler knows how to handle them ‒ This gives one a lot of flexibility, because the The compiler copy-pastes the code and substitutes The first, more common one, is through monomorphization, also called There are two general approaches to handling values of distinct types uniformly
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I can’t show the actual full final code (it’s not open source), but I’m sharing Some way (I don’t have a specific proposal, only a pain point). Particular thing easier by improving the standard library or the compiler in Maybe someone would also get inspired and figure out a solution to make this
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Solution, eventually, and you’re free to get inspired by it), it might be a goodĮntertainment for some (some people like to read about others’ difficulties) and Sharing this partly because it might save someone some time (I did find a Have settled our differences on that one already, but about downcasting. This dialogue was not about the lifetimes and borrowing, we (me and rustc) The notion of fight and would prefer to call it a dialogue or maybe aĭispute, this story shows the particular activity is not restricted only to The 'static bound on type_id is removed to test such safe variants of non-static downcasting.It is said that Rust beginners fight the compiler. However, Any is not the only way to achieve non-static downcasting. As references are Copy it allows conversion from &'a i32 into &'static i32 and it's apparently unsound. Therefore you'll be able to upcast &'a i32 to &Any and then downcast it to &'static i32. &'a i32 and &'static i32 will have the same TypeId (because lifetimes are erased at runtime) and both have the : 'a bound.
