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		humanrebar on Jan 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust 0.9 released Assuming you use smart pointers, you'll want overloading for pointer operators as well, even if you're not implementing the smart pointers yourself.

Arelius on Jan 15, 2014 [–]

I'm not however sure that applies to Rust. And frankly I care a lot less about the pointer operators for smart pointers. Any old accessor is decent, and I find the overloaded pointer operators sometimes confusing. At the very least it's not quite as obvious as it is for math operators.

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