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exciting programming problem in touchHLE: supporting inheritance for instance variables. look at how gnarly this is:
https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE/commit/ae5b7a8d6513e3204d3c2eab1f250cdcf8930ee5
i have an idea for a neater solution, but it will involve descending further into the land of Anys and 'statics and 'as and dyns :3
THE BAD NEWS: i have ran head-first into the borrow checker struggling with mutable borrows in loops again ;_;
THE GOOD NEWS: unsafe { &mut *(a as *mut _) } is my friend and would never hurt me :3
@hikari noooooo
@hikari more constructively, can you use RefCell instead
@jrose I mean I could but I'd rather do that for an actually good reason, not to work around non-lexical lifetimes not working properly with loops that have early returns