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Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming by NoGravitas on Friday June 03, 2022 @12:27PM (#31610491)
Traits seem, to me, a lot like generic functions and methods in CLOS (Common Lisp). It's just that CLOS doesn't bundle a group of generic functions into a trait, they're a la carte.
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Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming by pjmlp on Friday June 03, 2022 @12:48PM (#31610710)
Yes they do, they are called protocols.
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