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Working on some form of inheritance in rust. It's my first foray into procedural macros and so far it's fun. The idea is quite simple: generate structs with common attributes (and eventually functions) instead writing them yourself.
becomes
not
The latter leads to indirection which I'm not a fan of.
Last week I squashed one bug on the order of attributes according to inheritance. In the example above
attr2
was coming beforeattr1
. A feature is nearly done to exclude theParent
from the output and only output the child. That's useful for parents that just serve as holders for shared attributes.The goal for v1 was to also support basic inheritance of implementations:
Parent
has animpl
block, then that block is copied for theChild
. Not sure yet if I'll implement overrides in v1 or v2. Overrides being ifParent
implementsdo_something()
andChild
does too, then the implementation ofParent
is not copied into theimpl
block.That's what I'll try to tackle in the coming weeks.