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Rust Standard Library Cookbook

By : Jan Hohenheim, Daniel Durante
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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 to do it...

  1. Open the Cargo.toml file that has been generated earlier for you.

  2. In the bin folder, create a file called return_abstract.rs.

  3. Add the following code, and run it with cargo run --bin return_abstract:

1   #![feature(conservative_impl_trait)]
2   
3   trait Animal {
4     fn do_sound(&self);
5   }
6   
7   struct Dog;
8   impl Animal for Dog {
9     fn do_sound(&self) {
10      println!("Woof");
11    }
12  }
13  
14  fn main() {
15    // The caller doesn't know which exact object he gets
16    // He knows only that it implements the Animal trait
17    let animal = create_animal();
18    animal.do_sound();
19  
20    for word in caps_words_iter("do you feel lucky, punk‽") {
21      println!("{}", word);
22    }
23  
24    let multiplier = create_multiplier(23);
25    let result = multiplier(3);
26    println!("23 * 3 = {}", result);
27  }
28  
29  // The impl trait syntax allows us to use abstract...