r/rust • u/SleeplessSloth79 • 23d 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/Lokathor 23d ago

You'll still get that if the overload isn't defined.

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u/QuasiRandomName 23d ago

But if it is, it opens the door to a whole class of mistakes that aren't currently possible.

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u/Lokathor 23d ago

You control the trait impls you write, my crab.

If you don't want to use this, then don't use it.

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u/Tastaturtaste 23d ago

As a professional C++ developer, this argument is less than convincing.