add a README explaining the purpose of the workspace/ folder

[rust-101.git] / src / part00.rs

diff --git a/src/part00.rs b/src/part00.rs
index 06bb20593cd316d162152dbc2c530a2cba6a2a58..00eb4d1dfe9e92a8c8ac35a986ca12d86569276d 100644 (file)
--- a/src/part00.rs
+++ b/src/part00.rs
@@ -35,10 +35,9 @@ fn vec_min(vec: Vec<i32>) -> NumberOrNothing {
     //@ immutable per default, and you need to tell Rust if you want
     //@ to change a variable later.
 
-    // Now we want to *iterate* over the list. Rust has some nice syntax for
-    // iterators:
+    // Now we want to *iterate* over the list. Rust has some nice syntax for iterators:
     for el in vec {
-        // So `el` is al element of the list. We need to update `min` accordingly, but how do we get the current
+        // So `el` is an element of the list. We need to update `min` accordingly, but how do we get the current
         // number in there? This is what pattern matching can do:
         match min {
             // In this case (*arm*) of the `match`, `min` is currently nothing, so let's just make it the number `el`.
@@ -52,6 +51,8 @@ fn vec_min(vec: Vec<i32>) -> NumberOrNothing {
                 min = NumberOrNothing::Number(new_min);             /*@*/
             }
         }
+        //@ Notice that Rust makes sure you did not forget to handle any case in your `match`. We say
+        //@ that the pattern matching has to be *exhaustive*.
     }
     // Finally, we return the result of the computation.
     return min;
@@ -71,20 +72,19 @@ fn min_i32(a: i32, b: i32) -> i32 {
 
 // Indeed, we can: The following line tells Rust to take
 // the constructors of `NumberOrNothing` into the local namespace.
-// Try moving that above the function, and removing all the occurrences `NumberOrNothing::`.
+// Try moving that above the function, and removing all the occurrences of `NumberOrNothing::`.
 use self::NumberOrNothing::{Number,Nothing};
 
 // To call this function, we now just need a list. Of course, ultimately we want to ask the user for
 // a list of numbers, but for now, let's just hard-code something.
 
-//@ `vec!` is a *macro* (as you can tell from the `!`) that constructs a constant `Vec<_>` with the given
+//@ `vec!` is a *macro* (as indicated by `!`) that constructs a constant `Vec<_>` with the given
 //@ elements.
 fn read_vec() -> Vec<i32> {
     vec![18,5,7,1,9,27]                                             /*@*/
 }
 
-// Finally, let's call our functions and run the code!
-// But, wait, we would like to actually see something, so we need to print the result.
+// Of course, we would also like to actually see the result of the computation, so we need to print the result.
 //@ Of course Rust can print numbers, but after calling `vec_min`, we have a `NumberOrNothing`.
 //@ So let's write a small helper function that prints such values.
 
@@ -105,11 +105,12 @@ pub fn main() {
     print_number_or_nothing(min);
 }
 
-// You can now use `cargo build` to compile your code. If all goes well, try `cargo run` on the
-// console to run it.
+//@ You can now use `cargo build` to compile your *crate*. That's Rust's name for a *compilation unit*, which in
+//@ the case of Rust means an application or a library. <br/>
+// Finally, try `cargo run` on the console to run it.
 
 //@ Yay, it said "1"! That's actually the right answer. Okay, we could have
-//@ computed that ourselves, but that's besides the point. More importantly:
+//@ computed that ourselves, but that's beside the point. More importantly:
 //@ You completed the first part of the course.
 
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