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nyanpasu64 on Jan 1, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Wrapping Up 2021. Leaving C++

In my experience, Rust's multiple named functions is usually (not always) more clear than multiple function overloads, and practically always better than constructor overloads (you'll never convince me that std::vector's constructors are sane). However (IIRC) I wish it was possible in Rust to abstract over arity, in the case of function forwarding and tuple overloading.

tialaramex on Jan 1, 2022 [–]

I'd certainly like to be able to write std::cmp::max(a, b, c, d) and find the maximum of the four parameters.

But even when I most want that, I certainly don't want it enough to use C++

nyanpasu64 on Jan 1, 2022 | [–]

Oh, another thing I forgot is that you need a crate and a macro to zip 3 or more iterators together.

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