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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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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

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

Traits that can be derived

For some traits, the compiler itself knows how to implement them for a type. If we want them, we only have to tell it that we do, and it will take care of the rest for us.

We still have the option of manually implementing derivable traits, but that would usually just be a waste of time.

Telling the compiler that we want a data type to have a derivable trait is easy.

Here, we're telling it that we want our CopyExample enumeration to implement Copy and Clone:

#[derive(Copy, Clone)]
pub enum CopyExample {
Good,
Bad,
}

A trait can only be derived if the people who created the trait were able to write a program to generate the trait implementation. When we write #[derive(Copy, Clone)], we're telling the compiler to go find those programs for deriving Copy and Clone in the source code of the packages where the traits were defined, and run those...

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