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		lvass on Aug 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust – A hard decision pays off The first version isn't what I'd write in a purely functional language either, a recursive version would be much saner. Isn't recursion idiomatic in rust?

steveklabnik on Aug 24, 2022 | [–]

Rust doesn't guarantee TCO and so recursion is a bit dicer than in many functional languages.

throwaway894345 on Aug 24, 2022 | [–]

In addition to Steve's sibling comment, I'm responding narrowly to iterators versus for-loops. Recursion is out of scope.

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