object oriented emulation

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object oriented emulation #3

Closed richard-uk1 closed 5 years ago

richard-uk1 commented 5 years ago

I haven't fully thought this through, but I think you could emulate a class hierarchy using repr[transparent] and mem::transmute on references. This hasn't been done I assume because there is no reason a sane person would do this 😋

dtolnay commented 5 years ago

Seems plausible!