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Re:A Grand Vision for Rust by jstanley on Monday March 09, 2026 @05:19PM (#47315699)
Adding a new feature to unify existing features is perfectly isomorphic to defining a new standard to unify existing standards.
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Re:A Grand Vision for Rust by wtetzner on Monday March 09, 2026 @11:16PM (#47318735)
It's not though, unless the new feature and existing features continue to exist as disjoint things. If the new feature subsumes the old ones, then you've reduced the number of features in the language.
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Re:A Grand Vision for Rust by jstanley on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @03:13PM (#47327606)
The same is true of standards.
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