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Written by Philip Trettner on 2025-01-09 at 18:57

I love #rust but really, the "we don't have function overloading because it's too complicated for the user and our trait system is better" position does feel a bit far fetched at times...

(I happen to know exactly what I had to do in that particular case but I'm pretty positive the "hint" in the error message would not help a novice at all)

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Written by Philip Trettner on 2024-12-07 at 19:17

One of my least favorite activities in #RustLang refactoring: "adding a field to an enum".

I have a Term enum of different kinds (think lambda calculus terms). Now I'm adding a mode field to each term (regardless of kind).

Afaict, I need to:

• move all variants into TermKind
• change enum Term into struct Term and add the field
• awkwardly rewrite each use and creation site...

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