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You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands (sopuli.xyz)
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[–] SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

You can also use let else.

let (Some(count\_str), Some(item)) = (it.next(), it.next()) else {
    panic!("Can't segment count item pair: '{s}'");
};

But really it’s the exact same as other languages, it just forces you to handle it better. C-based languages will return 0/null/-1 and you’ll have to check all 3 of those because they might not mean the same thing. How is that better?