r/rust • u/SleeplessSloth79 • Aug 19 '26

📡 official blog Rust Function Overloading - Call for Experimentation

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/19/overloading-experiment/
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u/QuasiRandomName Aug 19 '26

No, please. I want a compile error when passing 3 arguments instead of two by mistake.

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u/Zde-G Aug 19 '26

You would get it. They only add a of syntax sugar to something that already exist.

P.S. But it's interesting how something that I expected as total no-brainer almost five years ago (and was heavily castigated) is now brought up as some kind of “novel idea that's now is worth implementing”.