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Settling Beef

Oxide and Friends

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The Challenges of Manipulating and Deleting Objects

This chapter discusses the challenges of manipulating and deleting objects that exist in multiple trees within a type system. It highlights the pitfalls of aliasing and mutating objects safely, as well as the need to upcast or downcast when working with intrusive data structures. The chapter emphasizes the importance of using the correct data structure and the compromises that come with it.

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