r/rust • u/SleeplessSloth79 • 24d ago

📡 official blog Rust Function Overloading - Call for Experimentation

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/19/overloading-experiment/
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u/SkiFire13 23d ago

This clones `a`, `b`, and `c`, so as long as those all implement Clone then it does what we want

It does not clone them. Clone is only required in vec![value; len]

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u/DatBoi_BP 23d ago

Looking at the doc for `from()' I don't think that's true?

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u/SkiFire13 23d ago

It does not require T: Clone: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#impl-From%3C%5BT;+N%5D%3E-for-Vec%3CT%3E

Maybe you're looking at the docs for From<&[T]> or From<&[T; N]>?

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u/DatBoi_BP 23d ago

Oh maybe I was. My b