On: Announcing Rust 1.14

[petters]

Question from someone who don't know Rust: Why two dots instead of an ellipsis (three)?

[kryptiskt → petters]

Three dots doesn't look like an ellipsis in a monospaced font, it's far too wide.

[echelon → kryptiskt]

It can if you use a monospaced font with ligatures.

Take a look at Fira Code [1]. I use it in Vim and IntelliJ, and it looks great with Rust and other functional languages.

[1] https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

[petters → kryptiskt]

Well, I'm sure you know what I meant.

[swsieber → petters]

I'm pretty sure he did know what you meant, and offered a serious response. I think he's suggesting that perhaps the aesthetics of the ellipsis is what prevented it from being selected.

[belovedeagle → petters]

It's already a keyword or operator (not sure which) used in range notation (1..2); why add a new operator when an old one will do?

[iopq → petters]

Three dots are for inclusive ranges, two for exclusive