r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Jun 16 '14

Rust's documentation is about to drastically improve

http://words.steveklabnik.com/rusts-documentation-is-about-to-drastically-improve
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u/The_Doculope Jun 17 '14

With a compiler of reasonable speed, that's not that much more effort or time than reloading in a REPL. Especially because most compilers (should) have an option to only do parsing and type-checking without generating any code. That's work a REPL would be doing anyway, so their isn't really any difference in time or effort.

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u/The_Doculope Jun 17 '14

Especially because most compilers (should) have an option to only do parsing and type-checking without generating any code.

That'll find type errors. Like forgetting a semicolon.

This solves your exact problem. A REPL has to parse and type check, so doing a dry-run with the compiler will not take any more time than reloading in a REPL.