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grumpyprole on July 15, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust should not have provided `unwrap`

It is! :) Perhaps the name could have made it more obvious: e.g. "get_or_fail"

scotty79 on July 15, 2022 [–]

It could be named .ordie() like php idiom from olden times.

GrumpySloth on July 15, 2022 | [–]

I associate it more with Perl. A quick search reveals Perl to be older than PHP by 7 years, so I'd guess it's a Perl idiom borrowed by PHP.

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