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by zozbot234 408 days ago
Isn't this essentially the generic typestate pattern in Rust? In my view there is a pretty obvious connection between that particular pattern and how other languages implement OO inheritance, though in all fairness I don't think that connection is generally acknowledged.

(For one thing, it's quite obvious to see that the pattern itself is rather anti-modular, and the ways generic typestate is used are also quite divergent from the usual style of inheritance-heavy OO design.)