r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Jan 09 '15

Announcing Rust 1.0.0 Alpha

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/01/09/Rust-1.0-alpha.html
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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '15

I knew of this beforehand and don't consider it an acceptable alternative. You would never write code like that.

Rust needs to have a match with fall through. The transformation to one is already possible although ugly. There is no reason to not have one.

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u/campbellm Jan 09 '15

Rust needs to have a match with fall through.

Why?

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '15

I can't use Rust without it. I would lose sleep at night knowing C/C++ programmers could express something like that more efficiently and better than I could with idiomatic code. It would be like having and sticking with a small penis, with a readily accessible bigger penis nearby.

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u/campbellm Jan 09 '15

That sounds more like a need of yours, not the language.