Module jlrs::wrappers [−][src]
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Wrapper types for Julia data
There are two major “classes” of Julia types, pointer and inline types. This distinction is due to how data of these types is stored when they’re used as field types in Julia structs. The fields of inline types are stored inline, while a pointer type is stored as a pointer.
While most kinds of data in Julia are defined purely in Julia, some are defined in C. This
includes types like Module, DataType, and Array. They’re mostly pointer types. Rather
than dealing with the raw pointers, jlrs provides wrappers for these builtin types, you can
find them, and more information about them in general, in the ptr module. The most
important of these wrappers is Value, which is essentially the Any of Julia.
In addition to these pointer wrappers, jlrs also provides a many inline wrappers. Examples
include the primitive types like UInt8 and Float64, most of them are simply the
appropriate primitive type in Rust; u8 and f64 will work for these two types, but Bool
and Char have custom wrappers: Bool and Char. Tuples of up to 32 elements are
available in the tuple module.