<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I’ve never seen !&amp; before. What does it do? I’m really hoping &amp;! can’t be a macro</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> you scare me (compliment)</p>

<p>just spent like six hours trying to squish an entire pattern matching engine into `macro_rules!` because i really did not want to use proc macros (or `syn`)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Sure, this looks bad, but can rust do serious damage the way perl can? Can it do this?</p><p>$[ = -int(rand(13));</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@gsuberland" class="u-url mention">@<span>gsuberland</span></a></span> </p><p>... who would write such a thing?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@gsuberland" class="u-url mention">@<span>gsuberland</span></a></span> most of the time it is not</p><p>but when it is...</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> keyboard smash language</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://phpc.social/@chrastecky" class="u-url mention">@<span>chrastecky</span></a></span> It took you that long to realize that? Hahaha</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> I keep my account open over there to troll my followers</p>