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Oh yea, that's the good stuff huffs glue (programming.dev)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

For those interested, this is because of how Rust uses value gaps to represent its nullable/enum structures. E.g., like how None for Option NonZeroU8 [sic, can't get formatting to work] is represented internally by a 0 instead of a wrapping structure.

When you have that many layers around a unit, it will start at 0 and bump the internal representation for each Some you turn into a None.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It's kinda like lambda calculus numbers