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That’s under “const generics”, but yes. Technically const fn is already stable, it’s just expanding what it can do, generally, so we tend to talk about them as one thing.

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I think it's not a good idea to talk about them as one thing and the use cases also differ. `const fn`s are deterministic ("pure") functions that can be evaluated at compile time if all arguments provided also can. `const A: B` generics are about compile-time value dependent typing. The former is important for the expressiveness of the latter but they are ultimately independent. Moreover, the implementation effort is also mostly independent (different people are doing the effort). Even having them in the same WG might not be a good idea.

In my mind const generics and const fn is a completely different feature. Proof: you can use const fn without any const generics.

Sure. They rely on the same internals, which is why they tend to be wrapped together when talking about them as a feature, that’s all I’m saying.

That also doesn’t change that const fn is stable today, so saying “it’s coming this year” muddies the waters a bit. You have to explicitly say “the capabilities of const fn will be expanded”, or you risk the wrong impression.

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