I know there is no such thing as mutually exclusive traits, but I am following the suggestion of Lukas Kalbertodt and using associated types to help me. Please bear with me since my MWE requires a bit of boilerplate. Assume I have Message and Handler traits, e.g. like in a (very) simplified version…

[image] geo-ant: Also, is there any workaround in case I cannot modify the handler trait itself? In my case the handler trait is provided by a different crate, but I can modify the Message trait In that case you can create a local copy of Handler and then write the blanket impl in terms of th…

Implementing Mutually Exclusive Traits and Trait Bounds

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geo-ant July 13, 2021, 8:39pm 6

Oh that is nifty, I'll give it a try tomorrow.

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