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by umanwizard 566 days ago
It is correct. For example, this code (admittedly a contrived example, just to illustrate the point) compiles in 1.82 but not in 1.83:

  trait OptionExt {
      fn get_or_insert_default();
  }
  
  impl<T> OptionExt for Option<T> {
      fn get_or_insert_default() {}
  }
  
  fn main() {
      Option::<()>::get_or_insert_default();
  }
The reason is that `get_or_insert_default` was added to the stdlib in 1.83, and takes a different number of arguments, so it clashes with the user-defined one here.
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Interesting, I would think that having OptionExt in scope would make it clear which method to use.