News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Gnirehtet rewritten in Rust by sixbrx on Sunday September 24, 2017 @08:54PM (#15327352)
Sounds closer to type classes usage a la Haskel than what I'd call OO (late binding)?
Re:Gnirehtet rewritten in Rust by bluejekyll on Sunday September 24, 2017 @09:09PM (#15327407)
I try to capture data in a enum or struct, then define the operations available to that type. A trait allows me to capture common functionality across different types which implement that trait. With generics it allows me to be polymorphic.

If that’s not OO, I don’t know what is :)

Re:Gnirehtet rewritten in Rust by Tarean on Monday September 25, 2017 @05:57AM (#15329134)
Well, technically traits dispatch based on type and not on value. As long as you aren't wrapping everything into trait objects that is much closer to functional programming. Seems like a mostly semantical difference, though.

I guess there is a philosophical difference in whether you pass a large struct into a function or select the needed data at the call side and only pass that, though. Former might be easier to extend, latter is probably easier to test?