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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

Lending

There's one more way we can send information to a different scope and that is by lending. When we move a data value, the receiving scope becomes the value's new owner. When we copy a data value, the receiving scope owns the duplicate it received, and the sending scope retains ownership of the original. When we lend a data value, things can get more complicated, because the original scope retains ownership, but the receiving scope is still allowed to access the data.

The original scope still owns the data, which means that, when that scope ends, the data will go away. If some of the scope's contained data was still loaned to a different scope at that time, the program would likely crash and, since the Rust compiler hates potential crashes, it does not allow us to get into that situation. Instead, it requires that any borrowed information must be returned...

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