rustmemcpy's comments

"The sky is big" is a fallacy in aviation because aircraft don't move unconstrained in 3D space. Typically they are restricted to narrow corridors where collision probability greatly increases.

I imagine the same applies to air commute, considering most people will be converging into a small number of waypoints.

How I wish I had gone to a separate school!

I was in what you could define as the "gifted program" throughout middle and high school.

Even though I ostensibly received a more advanced and tailored education, I still shared classes with students much less engaged than I. I was always at the top of my classes and was never truly challenged. I also never had the opportunity to participate in any kind of maths or informatics competitions.

Having never been exposed to excellence, I chose to go to the much cheaper state school (their education will be just as good, the counselors claimed...).

There too I excelled in my classes with minimal effort, took multiple graduate level courses, and received glowing recommendation letters from my professors.

By the time I entered my PhD in a tier 1 university, I was so woefully unprepared -- both academically and emotionally -- that my eventual dropping out was a foregone conclusion.

I spiraled into a deep depression and wasted a couple years of my life playing video games and living with my parents. I ideated suicide almost daily and willfully put my life in danger (standing at the edge atop tall buildings, driving very fast, imbibing liquor until I blacked out).

Now, a decade later, I've mostly come to terms with my mediocrity, but perhaps I could've risen a bit from it had my intellect been properly fostered. But more to the point, had I been exposed to other smart kids and participated in competitions earlier on, my ego could've been slowly molded over my youth, rather than shattered in a few months.

How would a self-referential object work in Rust in that case? The move or copy constructor could not be a simple memcpy.

The self-reference would point to the old object. See this for an example: http://ideone.com/sEFtbN