#choice #exclusive #linear

exclusive-choice

An implementation of affine addative conjunction in the rust type system

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0.1.0 Aug 11, 2024

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Choice

An implementation of affine addative conjunction in the rust type system.

This can be used to group mutually exclusive function parameters so that they can have overlapping captures.

Usage

The following code using Result does not work as it

Ok(0)
    .map(|x: i32| sender.send(x + 1))
    .map_err(|y: i32| sender.send(y - 1));
//!          ^^^^^^^^ use of moved value: `sender`

Whereas using Either and passing a Choice of two functions circumvents this issues by storing the two branches in the same object.

Either::Left(0).choose_map(Exclusive::new(
    sender,
    |s| move |x: i32| s.send(x + 1),
    |s| move |y: i32| s.send(y - 1),
));

Dependencies

~1.5MB
~36K SLoC