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steveklabnik on Feb 15, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Structurally-Typed Condition Handling

Fun fact: at one point in Rust's history, it too had conditions. They ended up being removed well before 1.0.

agumonkey on Feb 15, 2022 [–]

was is too costly (memory/instr) or too difficult to model/type properly ?

steveklabnik on Feb 15, 2022 | [–]

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/9795 and the various things linked from it (prs, commits, etc) are the best way to get the context.

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