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Re:When to use generics by tialaramex on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @07:21AM (#31013364)
> A classic example is something like generateInlinedVersionOfFunction<someInt, someFloat>() that generates a class or function with some particular values inlined for efficiency.

This smells very bad. Seems like a better choice is a macro, and I understand that in C++ the macros are awful and worth avoiding, but Rust has decent declarative macros for this type of work.

Do you have some real world examples?

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