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% Type Conversions
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At the end of the day, everything is just a pile of bits somewhere, and type
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systems are just there to help us use those bits right. There are two common
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problems with typing bits: needing to reinterpret those exact bits as a
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different type, and needing to change the bits to have equivalent meaning for
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a different type. Because Rust encourages encoding important properties in the
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type system, these problems are incredibly pervasive. As such, Rust
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consequently gives you several ways to solve them.
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First we'll look at the ways that Safe Rust gives you to reinterpret values.
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The most trivial way to do this is to just destructure a value into its
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constituent parts and then build a new type out of them. e.g.
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```rust
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struct Foo {
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x: u32,
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y: u16,
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}
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struct Bar {
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a: u32,
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b: u16,
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}
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fn reinterpret(foo: Foo) -> Bar {
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let Foo { x, y } = foo;
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Bar { a: x, b: y }
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}
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```
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But this is, at best, annoying. For common conversions, Rust provides
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more ergonomic alternatives.
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