Encode state machines in Rust's type system so invalid transitions and incomplete builders fail to compile rather than at runtime.
## CONTEXT The type-state pattern uses Rust's type system to make illegal states unrepresentable. Instead of checking at runtime whether an object is in a valid state for an operation, you encode the state in the type, so the compiler rejects invalid transitions outright. A classic application is the builder pattern:…
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