How to end a borrow in a match or if let expression?

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This is not possible at the moment. What you want is called non-lexical borrows and it is yet to be implemented in Rust. Meanwhile, you should use Entry API to work with maps – in most cases it should be sufficient. In this particular case I’m not sure if entries are applicable, but you can always do something like

let mut result = None;
if let Some(&Node::LeafNode(ref leaf_node)) = self.pages.get(&page) {
    let mut leaf_node = leaf_node.clone();
    // ...
    result = Some((leaf_page, leaf_node));
}

if let Some((leaf_page, leaf_node)) = result {
    self.pages.insert(leaf_page, leaf_node);
}

It is difficult to make the code above entirely correct given that you didn’t provide definitions of Node and self.pages, but it should be approximately right. Naturally, it would work only if leaf_page and leaf_node do not contain references to self.pages or self, otherwise you won’t be able to access self.pages.

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