X-Git-Url: https://git.ralfj.de/rust-101.git/blobdiff_plain/229b86d07e94cd3ec175051a44b3f3cb45b40b65..ab7f9b241429bd675b437d2437799de75d2f409b:/workspace/src/part00.rs diff --git a/workspace/src/part00.rs b/workspace/src/part00.rs deleted file mode 100644 index 4f7b403..0000000 --- a/workspace/src/part00.rs +++ /dev/null @@ -1,89 +0,0 @@ -// ***Remember to enable/add this part in `main.rs`!*** - -// Rust-101, Part 00: Algebraic datatypes -// ====================================== - -// As our first piece of Rust code, we want to write a function that computes the -// minimum of a list. - - -// An `enum` for "a number or nothing" could look as follows: -enum NumberOrNothing { - Number(i32), - Nothing -} - -// Observe how in Rust, the return type comes *after* the arguments. -fn vec_min(vec: Vec) -> NumberOrNothing { - let mut min = NumberOrNothing::Nothing; - - // 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 - // 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`. - NumberOrNothing::Nothing => { - unimplemented!() - }, - // In this arm, `min` is currently the number `n`, so let's compute the new minimum and store it. We will write - // the function `min_i32` just after we completed this one. - NumberOrNothing::Number(n) => { - unimplemented!() - } - } - } - // Finally, we return the result of the computation. - return min; -} - -// Now that we reduced the problem to computing the minimum of two integers, let's do that. -fn min_i32(a: i32, b: i32) -> i32 { - if a < b { - unimplemented!() - } else { - unimplemented!() - } -} - -// Phew. We wrote our first Rust function! But all this `NumberOrNothing::` is getting kind of -// ugly. Can't we do that nicer? - -// 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::`. -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 -// elements. -fn read_vec() -> Vec { - 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 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. - -fn print_number_or_nothing(n: NumberOrNothing) { - match n { - Nothing => println!("The number is: "), - Number(n) => println!("The number is: {}", n), - }; -} - -// Putting it all together: -pub fn main() { - let vec = read_vec(); - let min = vec_min(vec); - print_number_or_nothing(min); -} - -// Now try `cargo run` on the console to run above code. - - -// [index](main.html) | previous | [next](part01.html)