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gpm on Nov 21, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to make your C codebase Rusty: rewriting keybo...

In addition to this excellent reply, if you were using the type core::panic::PanicInfo commonly (i.e. "twice") you would import PanicInfo at the top of the file

    use core::panic::PanicInfo

and the function would become the much shorter

    fn my_panic(_info: PanicInfo) -> ! {

steveklabnik on Nov 21, 2019 [–]

Yes, and you can do something similar with C++ too; I debated if I should include it or not for this reason. (The semantics are a bit different...) Thanks for bringing it up!

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