CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@fasterthanlime naming of trait implementations then an explicit way to bring one of them into scope (“use” ?) and a way to specify them per-callsite.

The current syntax would be the equivalent of allowing anonymous implementations that are automatically applicable to any scope where no other named implementation has been specified.

impl Clone as MyClone for u32 {

use lib::MyClone;
// or
let x: u32 + MyClone = 42;

@fasterthanlime the orphan rule.

@mttaggart we’ve needed some sort of “reputation” system in OSS (spanning forges and package repositories) a bit more organized than “I’ve seen your pseudonym/avatar on another repo or on Twitter/mastodon) for some time.

I just hope it will be thoughtfully done and not hacked in place by a single (Github?) provider in reaction to incidents