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Rust Standard Library Cookbook

By : Jan Hohenheim, Daniel Durante
Book Image

Rust Standard Library Cookbook

By: Jan Hohenheim, Daniel Durante

Overview of this book

Mozilla’s Rust is gaining much attention with amazing features and a powerful library. This book will take you through varied recipes to teach you how to leverage the Standard library to implement efficient solutions. The book begins with a brief look at the basic modules of the Standard library and collections. From here, the recipes will cover packages that support file/directory handling and interaction through parsing. You will learn about packages related to advanced data structures, error handling, and networking. You will also learn to work with futures and experimental nightly features. The book also covers the most relevant external crates in Rust. By the end of the book, you will be proficient at using the Rust Standard library.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

How it works...

Nearly every type in Rust has a Default implementation. When you define your own struct that only contains elements that already have a Default, you have the option to derive from Default as well [42]. In the case of enums or complex structs, you can easily write your own implementation of Default instead [55], as there's only one method you have to provide. After this, the struct returned by Default::default() is implicitly inferrable as yours, if you tell the compiler what your type actually is. This is why in line [3] we have to write foo: i32, or else Rust wouldn't know what type the default object actually should become.

If you only want to specify some elements and leave the others at the default, you can use the syntax in line [29]. Keep in mind that you can configure and skip as many values as you want, as shown in lines [33 to 37].