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Introducing init/uninit before its use #355

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Expand Up @@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ fn main() {
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This is based off of a basic branch analysis: every branch must assign a value
to `x` before it is first used. Interestingly, Rust doesn't require the variable
to `x` before it is first used. For short, we also say that "`x` is init" or
"`x` is uninit".

Interestingly, Rust doesn't require the variable
to be mutable to perform a delayed initialization if every branch assigns
exactly once. However the analysis does not take advantage of constant analysis
or anything like that. So this compiles:
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