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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 04:57:39 JST Rich Felker

   I just love how in C++, what looks like purely adding functionality to your library can actively break code that calls it.

   In particular, adding overloads to make an interface more flexible can make existing call points ambiguous and thereby errors.

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     cliffle@hachyderm.io's status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 06:44:42 JST cliffle

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     @dalias also, under the right circumstances, new functions that _are not overloads_ but alter the behavior of argument dependent name lookup ("Koenig lookup")