Physically Impossible Ping Times
twitter.com42 pointsby notpopcorn3 comments
let role = Role {
name: "basic",
flag: 1,
disabled: false,
};
The language tries to prevent you from interacting with a `Role` object that's not fully initialized. `mem::zero()` could work, but then you'll have to turn the `&'static str` into an `Option<&'static str>` or a raw pointer, to indicate that it might be null. You could also add `#[derive(Default)]` to the struct, to automatically get a `Role::default()` function to create a `Role` with and then modify the fields afterwards, if you want to set the fields in separate statements for some reason: let mut role = Role::default();
role.name = "basic";
role.flag = 1;
role.disabled = false;
And even with `MaybeUninit` you can initialize the whole struct (without `unsafe`!) with `MaybeUninit::write`. It's just that partially initializing something is hard to get right, which is the point of the article I guess. But I wonder how commonly you would really want that, as it easily leads to mistakes.