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I believe the biggest killer use case is Optional. It is built into the language, but an optional is simply an enum:
enum Optional<T> {
case None
case Some(T)
}
In this case, a member variable like value would not make sense because in the None case, there is literally no value.
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Find the nth occurrence of a character
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Given a string s, a character c, and a number n, return the position of the nth occurrence of c in s.
If c does not have an nth occurrence in s, you can return a number outside the range of the string, or another type of object ent...
You are in charge of running a board game tournament. Unfortunately, you only have one copy of the game and only so much time, so only a limited number of games can be played. Since you want to run the best tournament possible, you want to ensure that the best player wins.
Your task, therefore ...
