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Use const generics #517
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We've min_const_generics approaching some stable release, which should suffice for replacing generic arrays everywhere.
Apologies if this came up elsewhere, not too plugged into these crates lately.
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newpavlov commentedon Feb 1, 2021
As written here
min_const_genericsare not sufficient for our needs. We also probably will need for rust-lang/rust#76560 to be resolved and stabilized as well (hopefully in a different form from the approach which the feature uses now).burdges commentedon Feb 1, 2021
I'll close this in favor of #238 then
tarcieri commentedon Feb 1, 2021
We need
min_const_generics+ traits (i.e. using an associated constant as a const generic), so unfortunately the former alone is insufficient for our use cases.There are a few places where we could consider const generics immediately. Namely in the
dercrate I usetypenum(sansgeneric-array) to control the size ofBigUint, but offhand that's really the only one I can think of where they're immediately applicable.