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Is this a Nut? (media.gehirneimer.de)
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[โ€“] nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That flag exists, it's called unsafe for if you need to tell the borrow checker to trust you or unwrap if you don't want to deal with handling errors on most ADTs.

You can always cast anything to an unmanaged pointer type and use it in unsafe code.

[โ€“] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you. I'll check it out next time.