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Wilfred Hughes

Dec 28, 2017 at 22:27

Superb blog post about "explicit is better than implicit". Are you seeking to make something opt-in, promoting 'syntactic salt', or arguing for local reasoning? https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post/2017-12-27-things-explicit-is-not/

Oftentimes when I am conversing about the design of Rust with other users - as on RFCs or the internals forum - I witness a peculiar remark about “explicitness.” It usually goes something like this: I do not like Feature Design X because it is too implicit. Magic is okay in Other Language Y, but Rust is supposed to be an explicit language, so we should go with Feature Design Z instead.