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I love Rust (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It makes it look like they're just adding random noise to avoid colliding with existing syntax. Maybe they can try a UUID next time...

[–] flying_gel 5 points 1 month ago

It makes perfect sense actually. I did write another comment here if you are interested.

This is how operator overloads were written going back to the initial version of C++ back in 1985. The only new thing is that we can now add = default to get the compiler to generate a default implementation that compares all the member variables for you.