Jeff Martin on Nostr: TIL in #Rust, if you name a variable `_`, it gets immediately dropped, but a variable ...
TIL in #Rust, if you name a variable `_`, it gets immediately dropped, but a variable named `_a` won't get dropped until the end of the scope.
So don't name your channel receivers `_` if you want the senders to keep working, even if you never intend to read from the receiver.
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