I'm new to Rust and I'm working on an application that serializes some data into a byte buffer. There are several methods that take an &mut Option<&mut Buffer> and some data and return Result<usize, String>. If some buffer is given, the data is written to the buffer and the number of bytes written i…

Idiomatic way for passing an optional, mutable reference around?

BurntSushi November 8, 2016, 11:59am 9

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