rust-lang/rust 0.2

Rust 0.2

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1500 changes, numerous bugfixes

New docs and doc tooling

New port: FreeBSD x86_64

Compilation model enhancements

• Generics now specialized, multiply instantiated
• Functions now inlined across separate crates

Scheduling, stack and threading fixes

• Noticeably improved message-passing performance
• Explicit schedulers
• Callbacks from C
• Helgrind clean

Experimental new language features

• Operator overloading
• Region pointers
• Classes

Various language extensions

• C-callback function types: 'crust fn ...'
• Infinite-loop construct: 'loop { ... }'
• Shorten 'mutable' to 'mut'
• Required mutable-local qualifier: 'let mut ...'
• Basic glob-exporting: 'export foo::*;'
• Alt now exhaustive, 'alt check' for runtime-checked
• Block-function form of 'for' loop, with 'break' and 'ret'.

New library code

• AST quasi-quote syntax extension
• Revived libuv interface
• New modules: core::{future, iter}, std::arena
• Merged per-platform std::{os*, fs*} to core::{libc, os}
• Extensive cleanup, regularization in libstd, libcore