Rust can do so many wonderful things, except to print a tuple.
I can print specific concrete tuples with known, possibly even generic, types. How many beginners will get stuck already on that? Now, suppose I want you to print a tuple of a uniform known type but simply of an unknown length. Not simple enough? By all means, I even allow you to restrict it to length <= 12.
For reference, the tuple rustdoc: tuple - Rust
I see that the longest Debug impl looks like it's for a 12-tuple.
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Yes but note that Display is not amongst the implementable traits.
I consider "Debug" mode to be "cheating", as I may actually want to print things out in release installations.
Well, you better not cheat or else the internet police will come and revoke your software engineering credentials.
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What would a Display print for a tuple look like?
If it's identical to the Debug implementation then just use that? It seems as though there was a miscommunication; you are allowed to use Debug prints in release mode.
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The two things that come to mind are that debug formats are explicitly unstable, and that debug printing a tuple will debug print its contents.
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Yes but I wanted to do my own formatting.
It ended up being a lot of code, but here's what I came up with. It generally breaks down into 3 parts:
- Traits to allow recursive code to process tuples, implemented by macro
- An iterator implementation yielding
dyn Display - A
Displayimplementation for the iterator
Edit: On nightly, you can write the iterator to work generically with any trait object, instead of just Display
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You have certainly risen to the challenge! I am impressed!
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