alt Hacker NewsVariable shadowing felt wrong for a while because it's considered verboten in so many other environments. I use it fairly liberally in rust now.
Variable shadowing felt wrong for a while because it's considered verboten in so many other environments. I use it fairly liberally in rust now.
It helps that the specific pattern of redeclaring a variable just to change its mutability for the remainder of its scope is about the least objectionable use of shadowing possible.