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It must just be a matter of familiarity. Rust's pattern matching is quite similar to other languages with pattern matching.

For example in OCaml the match statement would be:

     match ( i mod 3, i mod 5) with 
      | (0,0) -> Printf.printf "Fizzbuzz"
      | (0,_) -> Printf.printf "Fizz"
      | (_,0) -> Printf.printf "buzz"
      | (_,_) -> Printf.printf "%d" i
Other than the irrelevant syntax bits like 'with', the semantics are identical, in order matching with no fall through, and _ for unnamed and unused bindings.

To me with very limited experience in it, Rust really feels like OCaml with a skin that C programmers will understand.




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