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pcwalton on March 23, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: 100 days with Rust: a series of brick walls

And you can do the same in Rust with Box<Any>. What Rust doesn't have is the object slicing gotcha, which is probably a language design mistake in C++.

pjmlp on March 23, 2018 [–]

That gotcha is yet another flaw inherited from copy-paste compatibility with C.

structs being classes with public access by default, with default assignment operator behaving the same way as C code would expect.

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