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Meeting proposal: rename "object safety" to "dyn compatibility" #286

Open notriddle opened 1 month ago

notriddle commented 1 month ago

Summary

Instead of calling them "object safe," refer to traits that support vtables as being "dyn compatible."

Background reading

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/object-safety-is-a-terrible-term/21025

About this issue

This issue corresponds to a lang-team design meeting proposal. It corresponds to a possible topic of discussion that may be scheduled for deeper discussion during one of our design meetings.

joshtriplett commented 2 days ago

We talked about this at today's meeting, and we're generally in favor of making this change. Starting an FCP to confirm.

@rfcbot merge

rfcbot commented 2 days ago

Team member @joshtriplett has proposed to merge this. The next step is review by the rest of the tagged team members:

No concerns currently listed.

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