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Re:Rust 1.63 by steveklabnik on Thursday August 11, 2022 @04:42PM (#32431469)
Teeeny tiny note

> because Rust's get function v.get(i) is marked unsafe

You mean get_unchecked. get is safe, and returns an Option, so that None can be returned if something is out of bounds.

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Re:Rust 1.63 by tialaramex on Thursday August 11, 2022 @05:22PM (#32431878)
Doh! I even had the "get_unchecked()" function in front of me on the screen and wrote get() anyway. Thanks Steve.
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Re:Rust 1.63 by steveklabnik on Thursday August 11, 2022 @05:34PM (#32431997)
No problem. Thanks for explaining what unsafe does and doesn't do; you're 100% right that this is a common misconception that comes up often.
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