ebingdom

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1. 121.▲
   by ebingdom 5y ago

   Yes, but they are opt in, right?
2. 122.▲
   by ebingdom 5y ago

   I'm pretty confident Simon Peyton-Jones would never find it acceptable that adding a new type class instance changes the behavior of existing code, regardless of what convenience it brings. Yes, the dot operator is useful (as SPJ ackno
3. 123.▲
   by ebingdom 5y ago

   I think you have it reversed. `expr.expr` would need to become `(*expr).expr` if we didn't have auto-dereferencing.
4. 124.▲
   by ebingdom 5y ago

   I love Rust, but one thing that seems like a glaring design flaw is that adding a new trait implementation can change the behavior of existing code. This is very counterintuitive, because it seems like a purely additive change. In my opinio