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You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Most of the times you can just let ... else (which is basically a custom ? if you need if let ... else it's because you actually need 2 branching code paths. In any other language you also do if ... else when you have 2 different code branches. I don't see why this is a rust-specific issue.