“Other terms are more inclusive and precise,” reads a merged Pull request for the Rust programming language titled “Avoid ‘whitelist’.” “This doesn’t look like it affects any ‘user visible’ flags or anything like that,” core developer Niko Matsakis had pointed out in a comment on the pull request, asking “It’s purely internal…?” The pull request has since been merged.
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