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		Chirono on Sept 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Road to Rust 1.0 Wait, they've got rid of unique pointers? When did that happen? They were there a couple of months ago. That was one of my favourite language features...

andrewaylett on Sept 16, 2014 [–]

My understanding is that they're still there, just as part of the standard library rather than as a language feature.

steveklabnik on Sept 16, 2014 | [–]

That's correct. What used to be ~T is now Box<T>. We say 'boxes' instead of 'unique pointers' now.

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