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Comment by steveklabnik | Hacker News Reader

In the sense that "match is a superset of if and if let's functionality", yeah it's just a style preference.

However, while style truly is subjective, I'm not sure anyone could convince me that

  match foo {
      true => println!("hello"),
      _ => {}
  }

is the same or better than

  if foo {
      println!("hello");
  }

The RFC for "if let" has some good motivating examples as well https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/0160-if-let.html

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What about this code from the article

``` if cx.path == "/tags" { return tags::serve_list(cx).await; } else if cx.path.starts_with("/tags/") { return tags::serve_single(cx).await; }

    if cx.path == "/settings" {
        return settings::serve(cx).await;
    }

    if cx.path == "/search" {
        return search::serve(cx).await;
    }

    if cx.path == "/login" {
        return login::serve_login(cx).await;
    }

    if cx.path == "/patreon/oauth" {
        return login::serve_patreon_oauth(cx).await;
    }

    if cx.path == "/logout" {
        return login::serve_logout(cx).await;
    }

    if cx.path == "/debug-credentials" {
        return login::serve_debug_credentials(cx).await;
    }

    if cx.path == "/comments" {
        return comments::serve(cx).await;
    }

    if cx.path == "/latest-video" {
        return latest_video::serve(cx).await;
    }

    if cx.path == "/patron-list" {
        return patron_list::serve(cx).await;
    }

    if cx.path == "/index.xml" {
        return cx
            .serve_template("index.xml", Default::default(), mime::atom())
            .await;
    }

```

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I would probably write that with a match, personally. I didn't say match was useless, just that if and if let pull their weight as features, in my opinion, even though you could express them as a match if you really wanted to.

Oh I wrote that code in anger forever ago, it had the merit of still working when I did the last round of cleanups on my website.

I could've sworn at some point some paths had something slightly more involved (strip slashes, some starts_with or trim_prefix, etc.) but the snippet as you've copied it is certainly... not great.

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