One of my favorite #Rust facts is that specialization, proposed in July 2015, was described as a "relatively small extension to the trait system". It's been a couple years since I encountered this and it's still funny.

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@jhpratt chose one: lifetime in traits or specialization

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@jhpratt "the margin of this RFC is too small to explain the implementation, it is left as an exercise to the reader"