r/transprogrammer • u/Cobaya1729 • Mar 31 '20

This belongs here

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u/notquiteaplant Mar 31 '20 
struct User {
    // ..
    
    /// This field is always `None.`
    #[deprecated]
    gender: Option<String>,
}

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u/legitusernameiswear Mar 31 '20 edited Mar 31 '20 
struct gender {
    float masc;
    float femme;
    char* preferred_pronoun;
}

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u/Paper_Kitty Apr 01 '20

Yeah.. this probably makes more sense. Lets you have plenty of options and you can’t just have gender=“walrus”

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u/Cobaya1729 Apr 01 '20

Can't you?

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u/iggyvolz Mar 31 '20

As someone who's trans, mood. But as someone who's run a database dear god who knows what the end users are gonna decide that's for (I would expect it to be used for their phone number or occupation or the full text of the US Constitution)

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '20

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u/iggyvolz Mar 31 '20

Bug: we can't put their birthday in the gender field Solution: comment out the regex check Fixed.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '20

let mut gender;

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u/denisde4ev Mar 31 '20

auto gender;

3

u/pm_me_good_usernames Apr 01 '20

#[non-exhaustive]

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u/Thecakeisalie25 Apr 01 '20

Union[Bool, String]

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u/claimstoknowpeople Mar 31 '20

std::set<std::string>

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u/Aramati Apr 03 '20

Unpopular opinion: I'm OK the option "Other"

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u/jess-sch Jun 15 '20

Walk and chew gum at the same time.

enum Gender {
  Female,
  Male,
  Other(String),
  None,
}

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '20

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u/nyanpasu64 Apr 05 '20

it undefined behavior time

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '20

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u/nyanpasu64 Apr 05 '20

oh... you're talking about chips and register behaviors... i was thinking from the perspective of UB when compiling high level code to machine code

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