lilac hill
I have a struct that requires a stable pointer AND some initialization. Typically init returns a struct value, create takes an allocator and returns a pointer. Is there an idiomatic method name that takes the out pointer and writes to it?
i.e. pub fn abcd(out: *T) void
mint osprey
I would still call that function init
But if you don't like that, maybe setup or something?
Generally I'd try and avoid that type of constructor though; the only usecase is pinned datastructures which are often not a great idea
lilac hill
In this case its necessary since the struct contains a MPSC queue that is used by many threads, so the queue must be stable.
Its an event loop
mint osprey
Fair enough, that's one of the few cases where it's justified :)