X-Git-Url: https://git.ralfj.de/rust-101.git/blobdiff_plain/369875f931d841112dd2b6651fc968bb6c569cdb..35c4d2161ea07cfbb4085d7e5242ab9939889afa:/src/part03.rs diff --git a/src/part03.rs b/src/part03.rs index 45caaec..9ab153d 100644 --- a/src/part03.rs +++ b/src/part03.rs @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ // I/O is a complicated topic, so the code to do that is not exactly pretty - but well, // let's get that behind us. -// I/O is provided by the module `std::io`, so we first import that. +// I/O is provided by the module `std::io`, so we first have import that with `use`. // We also import the I/O *prelude*, which brings a bunch of commonly used I/O stuff // directly available. use std::io::prelude::*; @@ -56,14 +56,15 @@ fn read_vec() -> Vec { // of the function), but that's a bit too much magic for my taste. We are being more explicit here: // `parse::` is `parse` with its generic type set to `i32`. match line.parse::() { - // `parse` returns again a `Result`, and this time we use a `match` to handle errors (like, the user entering - // something that is not a number). - // This is a common pattern in Rust: Operations that could go wrong will return `Option` or `Result`. - // The only way to get to the value we are interested in is through pattern matching (and through helper functions - // like `unwrap()`). If we call a function that returns a `Result`, and throw the return value away, - // the compiler will emit a warning. It is hence impossible for us to *forget* handling an error, - // or to accidentally use a value that doesn't make any sense because there was an error producing it. + // `parse` returns again a `Result`, and this time we use a `match` to handle errors (like, the user entering + // something that is not a number). + // This is a common pattern in Rust: Operations that could go wrong will return `Option` or `Result`. + // The only way to get to the value we are interested in is through pattern matching (and through helper functions + // like `unwrap()`). If we call a function that returns a `Result`, and throw the return value away, + // the compiler will emit a warning. It is hence impossible for us to *forget* handling an error, + // or to accidentally use a value that doesn't make any sense because there was an error producing it. Ok(num) => vec.push(num), + // We don't care about the particular error, so we ignore it with a `_`. Err(_) => println!("What did I say about numbers?"), } } @@ -107,4 +108,7 @@ impl SomethingOrNothing { } } +// **Exercise 03.2**: Building on exercise 02.2, implement all the things you need on `f32` to make your +// program work with floating-point numbers. + // [index](main.html) | [previous](part02.html) | [next](part04.html)