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Indices, not Pointers

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102 points vitalnodo | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 23:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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skulk ◴[03 Sep 25 01:16 UTC] No.45111204[source]▶
This is a very tempting and commonly used strategy in Rust to bypass the borrow checker. I've used it to implement tries/DFAs with great success (though I can't find the code anymore)
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1. skeezyboy ◴[03 Sep 25 11:05 UTC] No.45114374[source]▶
> This is a very tempting and commonly used strategy in Rust to bypass the borrow checker.

Are you even allowed to publicly disparage the borrow checker like that?