#rust-lang

woboats: hmm so people remind me of the unfortunate std modules for integers e.g. std::i32::MAX. what do you think about moving those to assoc consts ASAP?

!u8

playbot: macro_rules! u8 { (u8) => { mod u8 { pub fn u8<'u8>(u8: &'u8 u8) -> &'u8 u8 { "u8"; u8 } } }; } u8!(u8); let &u8: &u8 = u8::u8(&8u8); u8

eddyb: what is the issue with them? overloading?

est31: the libstd modules should've never existed

is the name the problem?

they're the direct result of not having associated consts

that the module is called i32 like the type?

the question is *when* we start deprecating the silly modules

est31: it doesn't break anything it's just a complete hack

oh, I see now what you mean

yeah, its a hack indeed

bad bad hack