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Re:Rust RAII is better than the Haskell bracket pattern by simias on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @05:48AM (#18174522)
>Much as in C++, this is not really allowed: drop runs during panic unwinding, a panic during a panic will hard-abort the entire program.

Right, I didn't really consider that a "drawback" because I'm in the camp that considers that panic! shouldn't unwind but actually abort the process here and there anyway. But you're right that if you rely on the default unwinding behavior panic!ing in destructors is a very bad idea.

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Re:Rust RAII is better than the Haskell bracket pattern by cesarb on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @06:20AM (#18174659)
> But you're right that if you rely on the default unwinding behavior

You do rely on the default unwinding behavior anyway at least for `cargo test`: the test framework depends on being able to catch the unwinds from `assert_eq!` and similar.

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