This is a feature. The Rust compiler uses name shadowing a fair
amount. It's imaginable to have a lint pass about it that's off by
default, though I don't think we have a lint pass like that now. (In
Haskell, for example, name shadowing is allowed but GHC has an
optional warning flag that will warn
On 2/16/13 3:38 PM, Chris Peterson wrote:
Is this a feature or a bug? The Rust manual has no comment. This
behavior was surprising, but I actually it. I use a similar pattern in
Python when transforming a variable to a different type. I don't want to
make up a new (and uglier) name when I no lon
The following code snippet does not emit any compilation warnings about
redeclaring variable names or types:
fn x(y: int) -> ~str {
let y = y + 1;
let x = y == 2;
let x = x.to_str();
x
}
Is this a feature or a bug? The Rust manual has no comment. This beha
