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dnmc 12 hours ago

Maybe this isn't what you're suggesting, but it's already possible to make an interface that prevents callers from doing math on indices in Rust — just return a struct that has a private member for the index. The caller can pass the value back at which point you can unwrap it and do index arithmetic.

kibwen 8 hours ago | parent [-]

More than that, in theory an opaque handle would also do things like statically prevent a handle taken from one array from being used to access a different array. I feel like this should be possible in Rust with type-level shenanigans (e.g. GhostCell).