*sshole, or when are we going to get rid of C?

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You can very well write a Rust function that returns "*" if the password is too long. But the big difference between C and Rust in this regard is that the norms of the Rust community do not allow that. The engineering norms of C developers allow for "*" to be an acceptable sentinel value indicating an error; the engineering norms of Rust developers simply do not.

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