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steveklabnik • yesterday at 9:31 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Any is not a top type and ! is not a bottom type, actually. They are sort of similar from a lay perspective if you squint, though.


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afdbcreid • yesterday at 10:00 PM

Why not? I mean if you refer to Rust specifically, yes, because there is no subtyping except for lifetimes, only coercion (and `Any` also cannot contain any type). But in general, why not?

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