manual-clamp

Prefer clamp over nested bound comparisons

Nested comparisons that select the lower bound, upper bound, or original value manually clamp a number.
Instead, you SHOULD call .clamp() on the value.

.clamp() rejects inverted bounds and NaN bounds.

- Category: style
- Level: warning
- Fix: suggestion
- Scope: module

Reported

function bounded(value: int32, minimum: int32, maximum: int32): int32 {
    return value < minimum ? minimum : value > maximum ? maximum : value;
}
Accepted

function bounded(value: int32, minimum: int32, maximum: int32): int32 {
    return value.clamp(minimum, maximum);
}
Prior art

- Clippy · manualclamp

language/linter/src/rules/style/manualclamp.rs:8