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by SV_BubbleTime 1831 days ago
Ah, I get it now.

And it’s interesting to me that Rust doesn’t allow that considering it’s not accessing memory (yet, and that’s the whole point I’m sure.

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Pointers in Rust behave the same way. The problem is that the "array index" operator in Rust returns a reference to the indexed element, not a pointer, and references must be safely dereferenceable.