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		m0th87 on Oct 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On Error Handling in Rust Wikipedia implies that multiple dispatch is done by run-time time analysis in OO languages, which does not apply to Haskell or Rust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_dispatch Maybe it's being pedantic, but I can't tell. Are Haskell's type classes strictly as flexible as multiple dispatch?

twic on Oct 18, 2014 [–]

The proposed Rust feature sounds like overloading rather than multiple dispatch as it is usually understood.

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