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Re:Rust 1.17 by steveklabnik on Friday April 28, 2017 @07:31AM (#14218541)
A panic is significantly different than an actual out of bound access; the latter is the cause of a lot of issues, but a panic is preventing those issues.
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Re:Rust 1.17 by rmc on Friday April 28, 2017 @10:45AM (#14219751)
Ah I get you! You can't read past the end of an array, but you can get an error.
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Re:Rust 1.17 by steveklabnik on Friday April 28, 2017 @11:57AM (#14220463)
Exactly!
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