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Re:My favorite Rust function by steveklabnik on Saturday October 12, 2019 @09:47PM (#21237727)
For some history, it was talked about changing this, but we couldn’t, due to back compatibility and it wasn’t clear it was actually a good idea. This was called “wary drop”.
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Re:My favorite Rust function by likeliv on Sunday October 13, 2019 @03:03AM (#21238871)
Would be nice if types could annotate their Drop trait with #[early_drop] if the drop has no visible side effect, do rust could free the memory earlier.
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Re:My favorite Rust function by steveklabnik on Sunday October 13, 2019 @12:38PM (#21241291)
“Early drop”, thanks autocorrect.
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