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Re:Rust for functional programmers by gliptic on Sunday July 13, 2014 @12:11PM (#8027747)
You can have the same thing in Haskell using existential types.
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Re:Rust for functional programmers by platz on Sunday July 13, 2014 @12:52PM (#8027880)
I think the point is that traits are different from typeclasses
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Re:Rust for functional programmers by cmrx64 on Sunday July 13, 2014 @02:52PM (#8028264)
Not really, since the equivalent formulations in Rust are also existentials, just slightly massaged syntax-wise.
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