Merge pull request #7 from leesper/master

[rust-101.git] / workspace / src / part04.rs

diff --git a/workspace/src/part04.rs b/workspace/src/part04.rs
index fb23f2906001b0f8111df9f0a4c45b8f4315b8a7..e0d522e00cb863d58d56168b33a132c74243b34a 100644 (file)
--- a/workspace/src/part04.rs
+++ b/workspace/src/part04.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-// ***Remember to enable/add this part in `main.rs`!***
-
-// Rust-101, Part 04: Ownership, Borrowing
-// =======================================
+// Rust-101, Part 04: Ownership, Borrowing, References
+// ===================================================
 
 /*
   void foo(std::vector<int> v) {
@@ -16,16 +14,18 @@ fn work_on_vector(v: Vec<i32>) { /* do something */ }
 fn ownership_demo() {
     let v = vec![1,2,3,4];
     work_on_vector(v);
-    /* println!("The first element is: {}", v[0]); */
+    /* println!("The first element is: {}", v[0]); */               /* BAD! */
 }
 
-// ## Shared borrowing
+// ## Borrowing a shared reference
 
 fn vec_min(v: &Vec<i32>) -> Option<i32> {
     use std::cmp;
 
     let mut min = None;
-    for e in v {
+    // This time, we explicitly request an iterator for the vector `v`. The method `iter` just borrows the vector
+    // it works on, and provides shared references to the elements.
+    for e in v.iter() {
         // In the loop, `e` now has type `&i32`, so we have to dereference it to obtain an `i32`.
         min = Some(match min {
             None => *e,
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ fn vec_min(v: &Vec<i32>) -> Option<i32> {
 }
 
 // Now that `vec_min` does not acquire ownership of the vector anymore, we can call it multiple times on the same vector and also do things like
-fn shared_borrow_demo() {
+fn shared_ref_demo() {
     let v = vec![5,4,3,2,1];
     let first = &v[0];
     vec_min(&v);
@@ -44,28 +44,28 @@ fn shared_borrow_demo() {
     println!("The first element is: {}", *first);
 }
 
-// ## Mutable borrowing
+// ## Unique, mutable references
 
 fn vec_inc(v: &mut Vec<i32>) {
-    for e in v {
+    for e in v.iter_mut() {
         *e += 1;
     }
 }
 // Here's an example of calling `vec_inc`.
-fn mutable_borrow_demo() {
+fn mutable_ref_demo() {
     let mut v = vec![5,4,3,2,1];
     /* let first = &v[0]; */
     vec_inc(&mut v);
     vec_inc(&mut v);
-    /* println!("The first element is: {}", *first); */
+    /* println!("The first element is: {}", *first); */             /* BAD! */
 }
 
 // ## Summary
 // The ownership and borrowing system of Rust enforces the following three rules:
 // 
 // * There is always exactly one owner of a piece of data
-// * If there is an active mutable borrow, then nobody else can have active access to the data
-// * If there is an active shared borrow, then every other active access to the data is also a shared borrow
+// * If there is an active mutable reference, then nobody else can have active access to the data
+// * If there is an active shared reference, then every other active access to the data is also a shared reference
 // 
 // As it turns out, combined with the abstraction facilities of Rust, this is a very powerful mechanism
 // to tackle many problems beyond basic memory safety. You will see some examples for this soon.