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Rust Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Rust Quick Start Guide The easiest way to learn Rust programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789616705
Length 180 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daniel Arbuckle Daniel Arbuckle
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Preface 1. Getting Ready FREE CHAPTER 2. Basics of the Rust Language 3. The Big Ideas – Ownership and Borrowing 4. Making Decisions by Pattern Matching 5. One Data Type Representing Multiple Kinds of Data 6. Heap Memory and Smart Pointers 7. Generic Types 8. Important Standard Traits 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Expressions

The instructions that tell the computer to do something in a Rust program are almost all expressions. An expression tells the computer how to compute a particular value, and produces that value as its result. In math, 2 + 2 is an expression with a resulting value of 4. Similarly, (2 + 2) - 1 is an expression with a resulting value of 3, which is itself made up of an addition expression and a subtraction expression. In Rust, the same basic idea applies: expressions tell the computer how to find a value, and they can be combined together, because using an expression that produces a value has the same result as using that value directly, just as writing (2 + 2) - 1 has the same result as writing 4 - 1.

Not all expressions in Rust look like math, though. Rust is a programming language, not just a calculator. It's the idea of expressions, which combine values to produce...

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