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The only time I have ever seen something like this is using `todo!()` while initially writing code. I have never seen someone check in code like this.

What kind of clown show of a programming org are you working at?

This is morally equivalent to "There's no point to having a safety on a gun, because the safety won't stop you from bashing someone in the face with the gun." If you really want to, you can throw exceptions or crash the process or call exit() or call system("shutdown -h now") anywhere in your codebase. That has nothing to do with a type system.



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