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What about all those calls to unwrap? Don't those sweep some of the bounds checking under the rug? It's okay in a proof of concept like this, but I wouldn't be comfortable running that code "for real".

Edit: to be more clear, I wouldn't expect it to have an impact on performance, but I'm not convinced this is a good example of expressiveness and safety in the same package.




The unwraps are not memory unsafe, unlike avoiding bounds checks. In any case, rewriting to avoid them isn't so hard: http://huonw.github.io/2014/06/11/error-handling-in-rust-knn...

(Notably, since it's all in the types, you're guaranteed to not ignore any errors.)


.unwrap() is checked, if it goes wrong, it will safely cause task failure and stack unwinding. There won't be any memory unsafety.


You can't get corruption, but I don't consider a program that violently terminates on unexpected input to be "safe". Just semantics, I guess.


Yeah, saying 'safe' around Rust is generally interpreted as meaning memory safety.


The `unwrap` calls are all in the input parsing code (`slurf_file` fails if input is invalid), except for one on the result of `min_by` (`classify` fails if you pass it an empty array). I wouldn't say any of these "sweep bounds checking under the rug."




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