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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. Needing to reinterpret
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those piles of bits as different types is a common problem and Rust consequently
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gives you several ways to do that.
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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 to do. For common conversions, Rust provides
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more ergonomic alternatives.
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