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Learning Rust

By : Vesa Kaihlavirta
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Learning Rust

By: Vesa Kaihlavirta

Overview of this book

Rust is a highly concurrent and high performance language that focuses on safety and speed, memory management, and writing clean code. It also guarantees thread safety, and its aim is to improve the performance of existing applications. Its potential is shown by the fact that it has been backed by Mozilla to solve the critical problem of concurrency. Learning Rust will teach you to build concurrent, fast, and robust applications. From learning the basic syntax to writing complex functions, this book will is your one stop guide to get up to speed with the fundamentals of Rust programming. We will cover the essentials of the language, including variables, procedures, output, compiling, installing, and memory handling. You will learn how to write object-oriented code, work with generics, conduct pattern matching, and build macros. You will get to know how to communicate with users and other services, as well as getting to grips with generics, scoping, and more advanced conditions. You will also discover how to extend the compilation unit in Rust. By the end of this book, you will be able to create a complex application in Rust to move forward with.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Credits
About the Authors
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Title Page
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introducing and Installing Rust
4
Conditions, Recursion, and Loops

Beware of double name scopes


It is quite a common problem to create a crate that may run into an issue known as double name scope. Consider the following example:

mathslib::conversions::temperature::temperature 

Writing the preceding line instead of the following line causes a major problem:

mathslib::conversions::temperature; 

The problem is down to the mod.rs and the temperature file.

If you look at lib.rs, it has in it the name of the module that has to marry up with the name of the directory, which, in turn, contains the mod.rs file. The mod.rs file (as we have seen) needs to contain a public interface to the module. Now, following this logic, the code in the temperature.rs file should also have pub mod temperature { ... }. It is this final pub mod that gives the double name scope.

To avoid this problem, just leave the pub mod temperature line out. As long as the filename matches the pub mod name in mod.rs, the compiler will consider that code as belonging to the named mod from mod.rs.

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