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cipherself opened this issue May 26, 2015 · 2 comments
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Document the functionality of the placeholder operator character _ #25786

cipherself opened this issue May 26, 2015 · 2 comments

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Currently there isn't documentation explaining how the _ character works
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@cipherself cipherself changed the title Document the fucntionality of the placeholder operator character _ Document the functionality of the placeholder operator character _ May 26, 2015
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barca commented May 26, 2015

Are you referring to its usage or implementation. Currently the book provides a very brief description of what _ does, however I could write up something slightly more detailed if desired. (see below):
http://blog.vrinek.io/rust/doc/book/patterns.html

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@barca Hmm, the conversation that starts here https://botbot.me/mozilla/rust/2015-05-25/?msg=40115096&page=31 might be interesting

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Make note of interaction between let _ and Drop
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steveklabnik added a commit to steveklabnik/rust that referenced this issue Jul 6, 2015
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Document _ in bindings
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Rollup merge of rust-lang#26827 - steveklabnik:gh25786, r=alexcrichton
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Rollup merge of rust-lang#26827 - steveklabnik:gh25786, r=alexcrichton
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Rollup merge of rust-lang#26827 - steveklabnik:gh25786, r=alexcrichton
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