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		adhamsalama on May 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amber: Programming language compiled to Bash It's useful in Rust where you might parse input as a string and then convert it to a number. It's better than having a variable named age and another one named age_num or the opposite, str_age and age.

michaelmior on May 22, 2024 [–]

I guess that's fair. I haven't seen that pattern in Rust before and I don't think I particularly like it, but I can see why some might.

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