HUhub_·Mar 28, 2016
btw, creating the string with capacity was in my mind at one point. Some contributor submitted a PR already
https://github.com/hfiguiere/leftpad-rs/pull/2
Sadly it has gathered some rust (pun intended !)
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leftpad, in rust.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Mar 24, 09:00 | 2016-03-24 09:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-24 12:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Mar 24, 12:00 | 2016-03-24 12:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-24 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 24, 15:00 | 2016-03-24 15:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-24 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 24, 18:00 | 2016-03-24 18:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-24 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 24, 21:00 | 2016-03-24 21:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 25, 00:00 | 2016-03-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-25 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 25, 03:00 | 2016-03-25 03:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-25 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 25, 06:00 | 2016-03-25 06:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-25 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 25, 09:00 | 2016-03-25 09:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-25 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 25, 12:00 | 2016-03-25 12:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-25 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 25, 15:00 | 2016-03-25 15:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-25 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 25, 18:00 | 2016-03-25 18:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-25 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 25, 21:00 | 2016-03-25 21:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 26, 00:00 | 2016-03-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-26 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 26, 03:00 | 2016-03-26 03:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-26 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 26, 06:00 | 2016-03-26 06:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-26 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 26, 09:00 | 2016-03-26 09:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-26 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 26, 12:00 | 2016-03-26 12:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-26 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 26, 15:00 | 2016-03-26 15:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-26 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 26, 18:00 | 2016-03-26 18:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-26 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 26, 21:00 | 2016-03-26 21:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27, 00:00 | 2016-03-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-27 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27, 03:00 | 2016-03-27 03:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-27 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27, 06:00 | 2016-03-27 06:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-27 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27, 09:00 | 2016-03-27 09:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-27 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27, 12:00 | 2016-03-27 12:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-27 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27, 15:00 | 2016-03-27 15:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-27 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27, 18:00 | 2016-03-27 18:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-27 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 27, 21:00 | 2016-03-27 21:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 28, 00:00 | 2016-03-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-28 03:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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3 sourcesIs there a special reason the tests are all asserting inequality? To me this only indicates if it doesn't do stuff it's not supposed to do, instead of working as intended: https://github.com/hfiguiere/leftpad-rs/blob/master/src/lib....
[edit] thanks for the explanation, I'm not familiar with rust and just assumed the bang would mean !=
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