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Re: Function overloading

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Cholo Lennon <chololennon@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am learning Rust. One missing C++/Java feature is function 
> overloading. One of the explanations of this decision is that "function 
> overloading is an anti-pattern", because, among other things, "it leads 
> to less readable and understandable code".

Any language feature can be misused and "lead to less readable and
understandable code". Heck, *function names* can be very easily used to
write incomprehensible code (and believe me I have experience on that,
having had to read a boatload of code made by other people... code that
uses *extremely* poor function and variable name choices. That alone
makes a lot of code ten times harder to understand than it would have to.)

I assume that Rust doesn't have support for generic code, then? Because
function overloading is what makes generic code work.

I suppose generic code could still be written without function overloading,
but it would be extraordinarily limited. Heck, the arithmetic and comparison
operators supported by the vast majority of languages are "overloaded
functions" of sort (and are part of what makes generic code work). I assume
Rust has different arithmetic types, and operators like + and - work on
all of them, and you don't have to specify different function names for
different types in order to eg. add them or subtract them.

User-defined overloaded functions aren't much different from overloaded
operators. It's a bit artificial to deliberately limit the overloading of
functions when the language already has overloading of operators built in.

How do you print things in Rust, if it doesn't support function overloading?
Or does it make an exception for itself, for its own elementary functions?

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Function overloading Cholo Lennon <chololennon@hotmail.com> - 2022-07-20 18:42 -0300
  Re: Function overloading Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-07-20 19:22 -0500
    Re: Function overloading Gawr Gura <gawrgura@mail.hololive.com> - 2022-07-20 22:44 -0700
      Re: Function overloading Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-07-21 16:17 -0500
    Re: Function overloading Cholo Lennon <chololennon@hotmail.com> - 2022-07-22 19:43 -0300
      Re: Function overloading Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-07-22 18:38 -0500
        Re: Function overloading Cholo Lennon <chololennon@hotmail.com> - 2022-07-24 01:24 -0300
          Re: Function overloading Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-07-25 16:01 -0500
            Re: Function overloading "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach@gmail.com> - 2022-07-26 00:05 +0200
              Re: Function overloading Cholo Lennon <chololennon@hotmail.com> - 2022-07-30 18:04 -0300
            Re: Function overloading Cholo Lennon <chololennon@hotmail.com> - 2022-07-30 18:03 -0300
              Re: Function overloading Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-08-02 23:11 -0500
    Re: Function overloading Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-07-27 16:10 +0200
      Re: Function overloading Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-07-27 16:11 +0200
      Re: Function overloading Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-07-27 16:35 +0200
        Re: Function overloading Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-07-28 05:51 +0200
      Re: Function overloading Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-07-27 14:54 -0500
        Re: Function overloading Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-07-28 05:43 +0200
          Re: Function overloading Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-07-28 13:32 -0500
      Re: Function overloading Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-07-27 15:01 -0500
  Re: Function overloading Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-07-21 05:45 +0000
  Re: Function overloading Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee> - 2022-07-21 09:04 +0300
    Re: Function overloading Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-07-21 07:16 +0000
      Re: Function overloading Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-07-21 16:22 -0500

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