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all-your-base: Return domain-specific error#469

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We prefer domain-specific errors to empty tuple because the former are
programmatically inspectable. We would prefer to encourage students to
use domain-specific errors rather than empty tuple.

As discussed in #444:
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// check that all digits are in the correct range specified by the base
if digits.as_ref().iter().any(|&num| num >= from_base) {
return Err("Digits invalid for input base");
if let Some(&invalid) = digits.as_ref().iter().find(|&num| *num >= from_base) {
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There is in fact not a specific reason I wrote find(|&num| *num >= from_base) as opposed to one of these two alternatives:

find(|&&num| num >= from_base)
find(|num| **num >= from_base)

I really don't know what I'm doing and which is better, so I need help on that.

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I am also unaware of any particular style guide suggestion as to which of those alternatives is ideal, but I like the symmetry of having equal numbers of & and *.

We prefer domain-specific errors to empty tuple because the former are
programmatically inspectable. We would prefer to encourage students to
use domain-specific errors rather than empty tuple.

As discussed in #444:
#444
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petertseng commented Apr 4, 2018

last reviewed: e62e97e

regular diff: git diff e62e97ee3371fa8dd8fd32b6677756240b4e0ecf 99e951d exercises/all-your-base : README regeneration only.

diff-of-diff: diff -u <(git diff e62e97ee3371fa8dd8fd32b6677756240b4e0ecf~ e62e97ee3371fa8dd8fd32b6677756240b4e0ecf) <(git diff 99e951d~ 99e951d) - no change

thus, I'm taking the most recent approval as authoritative

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I see that the stub compilation check has made itself useful already.

@petertseng petertseng merged commit ccc6f0f into exercism:master Apr 4, 2018
@petertseng petertseng deleted the ayb branch April 4, 2018 18:19
UnlimitedHummus added a commit to UnlimitedHummus/exercism-rust that referenced this pull request Sep 12, 2023
Update instructional comment to match changes from exercism#469
UnlimitedHummus added a commit to UnlimitedHummus/exercism-rust that referenced this pull request Sep 12, 2023
Update instructional comment to match changes from exercism#469.
senekor pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 12, 2023
Update instructional comment to match changes from #469.
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