You can do this, but it's non-idiomatic (at least in my opinion). The only times I use shadowing is when "stripping a layer", such as unwrapping an option, or a

You can do this, but it's non-idiomatic (at least in my opinion). The only times I use shadowing is when "stripping a layer", such as unwrapping an option, or a non-destruction type change such as u8 to u64.