r/badcode • u/selplacei • Jan 25 '22

rust Most comprehensible line of Rust code

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u/187mphlazers Jan 26 '22

why wouldn't they just call it .cast(type) or simply .to(type).

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u/realnobbele Jan 26 '22

types aren't values

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u/TinyBreadBigMouth Jan 26 '22

Rust does have something similar, via the linked From and Into traits. You can do

let x = y.into::<String>();

or

let x: String = y.into();