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text/2008-non-exhaustive.md
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555 pub trait Sealed {}
556 impl Sealed for super::LittleEndian {}
557 impl Sealed for super::BigEndian {}
558 }
559
560 pub trait ByteOrder: /* ... */ + private::Sealed {
561 // ...
562 }
563 ```
564
565 This way, although downstream crates can use this trait, they cannot actually
text/1105-api-evolution.md
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268 the potential for "sealed" traits to alter this dynamic.)
269
270 #### Minor change: adding a defaulted item.
271
272 Adding a defaulted item is technically a breaking change:
740 breaking downstream code.
741
742 **Sealed traits**
743
744 The ability to annotate a trait with some "sealed" marker, saying that no
745 external implementations are allowed, would be useful in certain cases where a
text/1522-conservative-impl-trait.md
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265 allows OIBITs to leak through, and allows specialization to "see" the full type
266 being returned. That is, `impl Trait` does not attempt to be a "tightly sealed"
267 abstraction boundary. The rationale for this design is a mixture of pragmatics
335 In the [most recent RFC](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1305) related to
336 this feature, a more "tightly sealed" abstraction mechanism was
337 proposed. However, part of the discussion on specialization centered on
text/2145-type-privacy.md
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240 errors. There are reasonable use cases for such functions, for example emulation
241 of sealed traits.
242 The only suspicious part about it is documentation - what arguments can it take
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