cgmath::vector::Vector shadows std::vec::Vector

[rsaarelm]

In modules that have

use cgmath::vector::Vector;

in them, you can no longer take slices from native rust vectors, eg.

let a = ~[1, 2, 3];
let b = a.as_slice();

"error: type ~[int] does not implement any method in scope named as_slice"

The method as_slice is supposed to come from module std::vec::Vector.

A workaround is to rename the cgmath import, eg.

use cgVector = cgmath::vector::Vector;

Possible quick fix: Rename cgmath::vector::Vector into Vec?

[brendanzab]

Oh dear. I was actually planning on renaming Vec2 etc. to Vector2. :(

Calling [] vectors is really annoying.

[brendanzab]

I'm pretty sure this isn't a problem now.

[bfops]

I'm still having this issue; importing cgmath::vector::Vector causes as_slice to no longer be in scope. rustc is the nightly build from July 15, and a fresh github pull of cgmath-rs.

My code is at https://github.com/RobotGymnast/playform/blob/5667371f9c4682cac0dc856e6ded9ae62266e461/src/main.rs; it's committed with slice using explicit bounds instead of as_slice. Switching to as_slice causes the scope error for me.

[brendanzab]

Yack. I wonder what other name we could give it? :[

[emberian]

Vectar, and we can rename the library to "piratemath"

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Brendan Zabarauskas <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

Yack. I wonder what other name we could give it? :[

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[bvssvni]

CGVector?