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Re:Ask HN: What is the state of C++ vs. Rust? by ar15saveslives on Thursday October 20, 2016 @10:07PM (#12757697)
How does it happen? Non-const unique_ptr& used as a function parameter?
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Re:Ask HN: What is the state of C++ vs. Rust? by steveklabnik on Friday October 21, 2016 @03:42AM (#12758824)
http://www.steveklabnik.com/uniq_ptr_problem/
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Re:Ask HN: What is the state of C++ vs. Rust? by ar15saveslives on Friday October 21, 2016 @09:13AM (#12760095)
I can simplify your example:

  unique_ptr<int> p;
  auto n = *p; // C++ kills!
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