X-Git-Url: https://git.ralfj.de/rust-101.git/blobdiff_plain/369875f931d841112dd2b6651fc968bb6c569cdb..4816335a8c0e5bcb2514d9c7857596348fa72ff4:/src/part05.rs diff --git a/src/part05.rs b/src/part05.rs index a4478f8..03c10d3 100644 --- a/src/part05.rs +++ b/src/part05.rs @@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ // the memory of the machine being the only limit. // // We start by deciding how to represent such big numbers. One possibility here is -// to use a vector "digits" of the big number. This is like "1337" being a vector of four digits (1, 3, 3, 7), -// except that we will use `u64` as type of our digits. Now we just have to decide -// the order in which we store numbers. I decided that we will store the least significant +// to use a vector "digits" of the number. This is like "1337" being a vector of four digits (1, 3, 3, 7), +// except that we will use `u64` as type of our digits, meaning we have 2^64 individual digits. Now we just +// have to decide the order in which we store numbers. I decided that we will store the least significant // digit first. This means that "1337" would actually become (7, 3, 3, 1).
// Finally, we declare that there must not be any trailing zeros (corresponding to // useless leading zeros in our usual way of writing numbers). This is to ensure that @@ -49,24 +49,19 @@ impl BigInt { // We can convert any vector of digits into a number, by removing trailing zeros. The `mut` // declaration for `v` here is just like the one in `let mut ...`, it says that we will locally - // change the vector `v`. In this case, we need to make that annotation to be able to call `pop` - // on `v`. + // change the vector `v`. + // + // **Exercise 05.1**: Implement this function. + // + // *Hint*: You can use `pop()` to remove the last element of a vector. pub fn from_vec(mut v: Vec) -> Self { - while v.len() > 0 && v[v.len()-1] == 0 { - v.pop(); - } - BigInt { data: v } + unimplemented!() } } -// **Exercise 05.1**: Write a function on `BigInt` that returns the number of digits. Write another one -// that increments the number by 1. -// -// *Hint*: To take `self` as a mutable borrow, write `fn inc1(&mut self)`. - // ## Cloning // If you have a close look at the type of `BigInt::from_vec`, you will notice that it -// consumes the vector `v`. The caller hence loses access. There is however something +// consumes the vector `v`. The caller hence loses access to its vector. There is however something // we can do if we don't want that to happen: We can explicitly `clone` the vector, // which means that a full (or *deep*) copy will be performed. Technically, // `clone` takes a borrowed vector, and returns a fully owned one. @@ -124,7 +119,7 @@ enum Variant { Text(String), } // Now consider the following piece of code. Like above, `n` will be a borrow of a part of `var`, -// and since we wrote `ref mut`, they will be mutable borrows. In other words, right after the match, `ptr` +// and since we wrote `ref mut`, the borrow will be mutable. In other words, right after the match, `ptr` // points to the number that's stored in `var`, where `var` is a `Number`. Remember that `_` means // "we don't care". fn work_on_variant(mut var: Variant, text: String) {