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Re:Announcing Rust 1.0 Beta by mrec on Friday April 03, 2015 @06:51PM (#9319054)
I'm sure I'm not the first (or the hundredth) to say this, but `unwrap` has always struck me as a horribly innocuous spelling of "yes, feel free to crash here".

I presume there is (or could be) a standard lint to prevent this getting into production code, but it still feels kind of icky.

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Re:Announcing Rust 1.0 Beta by steveklabnik on Friday April 03, 2015 @06:59PM (#9319090)
We almost changed it to `assert` but that made some people _really_ upset.
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Re:Announcing Rust 1.0 Beta by rat87 on Saturday April 04, 2015 @04:12AM (#9320338)
Dammit, I kept wondering why it wasn't named unwrap_or_panic/unwrap_or_assert but it could be worse at least unwrap is a less friendly name then scala's get.
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Re:Announcing Rust 1.0 Beta by Manishearth on Saturday April 04, 2015 @01:27AM (#9320015)
`.expect()` is slightly better (you can give it a string that will become a part of the panic message)
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