Here is a simplified example of my problem:

struct User;
struct Community;

enum Actor {
    User(User),
    Community(Community),
}

trait Name {
    fn name() -> &'static str;
}

impl Name for User {
    fn name() -> &'static str { "/u/nutomic" }
}

impl Name for Community {
    fn name() -> &'static str { "/c/rust " }
}

fn main() {
    let actor = Actor::Community(Community);
    println!("{}", actor.name());
}

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As you may have noticed, this doesnt compile. The only solution I can think of is with a match. I want to avoid that because I have an enum with 30+ variants, and a trait with multiple methods. So that would be a huge match statement in each method, when the compiler should know that the enum variants all have the same trait.

So, do you know any way to make this work without match?

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    I guess, this isn’t really directly a solution to your issue, it just kind of feels like an ECS-like solution might be appropriate to obsolete these types of problems completely.

    But yeah, I don’t know your code and as I said, an ECS architecture can really be a pain, too.