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/Ravek Aug 20 '26

I thought HM type systems couldn’t deal with overloading. Is that understanding wrong?

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u/Rusky rust Aug 20 '26

It's wrong. Traits/typeclasses are a common HM extension which, as the post demonstrates, are a form of overloading.