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		kazinator 11 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust Decomposing things just to have different equality notions doesn't generalize. How would you decompose a character string so that you could have a case-insensitive versus sensitive comparison? :)

Nevermark 5 hours ago [–]

> How would you decompose a character string

With a capitalization bit mask of course!

And you can speed up full equality comparisons with a quick cap equality check first.

(That is the how. The when is probably "never". :)

Rygian 5 hours ago | [–]

Don't forget to store the locale used for capitalization, too.

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