Rust Trait

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• Rust operators can be extended by implementing Traits
  • It's possible to use Rust's built-in operators with your own types by implementing the correct Traits. For example, in order to use + you can implement core::ops::Add.
• Traits and Typeclasses
  • To the best of my knowledge, the idea of traits in rust is based on the idea of Typeclasses found in Haskell and other pure functional languages. I'm not certain on how they differ, but the idea of stating the equivalent of an interface and then letting data structures implement that interface while wiring up the details under the hood is common.