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One Friday night a few months ago, my family sat down to enjoy a TV show. We were surprised to see "Start your free trial." instead of "Continue watching."
Things escalated from there! Enjoy this 100% true story, part of April Cools — an annual tradition where we post genuine stories on unexpected topics.
@adotinthevoid and eventually, after performing a check on the normalized form, cargo-semver-checks may re-denormalize in order to point out the specific clause that was broken — which may be in a where clause or in the generic definition itself.
Feels like a severe case of path-dependence. In the abstract, we might have wanted a "clause source" flag plus a normalized representation. But perhaps it's too late now, or maybe not!