• Rust Patterns (Lars Bergstrom)
• Goals (slide 1)
• 2
• owned pointer example (slide 3)
• Linked list (slide 4)
• Simple linked list with header (slide 5)
• quiz: why can't it be
• Type has infinite size
• First wrong attempt
• Where it goes bad
• Instead: use unsafe pointers
• wrapping up the access in Rawlink
• Just like Option, but unsafe
• New push_front code
• Use by converting to an Option
• What happens if...
• Boom...
• Raw pointers
• How does Servo use this?
• Questions
• Part 2: Phantom types
• Why not just priv?
• Pull out the secure methods
• Transmute to get access
• How does Servo use this?