stable rust

[luke-titley]

Hey, I'd love to use this, but it requires rust nightly. Any chance of being able to turn off the requirement for rust nightly ?

[jsmith628]

At the moment, no, for two reasons:

1. Specialization is currently used internally for automatic impls for MulN, MulZ, PowN, and PowZ as implementing those traits manually is quite tedious and practically requires specialization anyway.
2. maths-traits currently uses feature(trait_alias) extremely heavily. (as in, practically 3/4ths of the items in the crate are trait aliases)

Now, in regards to the trait aliases, it is certainly possible to get the same behavior without them (ie using traits with blanket impls ), and I've even done it before, but to my knowledge there is really no way to fix the need for specialization. It's possible that maybe we could gate those traits behind a crate feature, but other than that, I am not aware of any solution.

[luke-titley]

got it. Looking forward to being able to use this in the future :)

[jsmith628]

If you don't mind me asking, what were you thinking of using it for? I'm mainly just curious, but knowing how this project will be used by others could help steer some design decisions if I ever decide to come back to this to add or modify things in the future.

[porky11]

I was happy I found this until I realized, how heavily it relies on specialization and I need nightly.
Looks like I still have to stick to num traits for a while or just create my own crate...