TRPL: if let #24643
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| If a [pattern][patterns] matches successfully, it binds any appropriate things |
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“things” seems too colloquial to my taste.
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I wasn't sure what word to use exactly, suggestions welcome :)
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Ah, sorry, maybe “binds any appropriate parts of the value to the identifiers in the pattern”? subvalues or substructures seem too jargony on the contrary.
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| In a similar fashion, `while let` can be used when you want to loop over the | ||
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Same here. It's not clear what is meant by “result of a pattern” since that's not a term we seem to use at all. Maybe:
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while letcan be used when you want to conditionally loop as long as a value matches a certain pattern. It turns code like this:
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@jakub- thanks! Addressed on all fronts, and better for it. 😄 |
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