X-Git-Url: https://git.ralfj.de/rust-101.git/blobdiff_plain/832768ac8f69b436c1f90ad7a2f01af25091599a..f41a988984bb5487de50168403c5e9a666512595:/src/part02.rs?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/src/part02.rs b/src/part02.rs index 3be1cdd..a01081b 100644 --- a/src/part02.rs +++ b/src/part02.rs @@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ pub use self::SomethingOrNothing::*; //@ `SomethingOrNothing` to get back our `NumberOrNothing`. type NumberOrNothing = SomethingOrNothing; //@ However, we can also write `SomethingOrNothing` or even `SomethingOrNothing>`. -//@ In fact, such a type is so useful that it is already present in the standard library: It's called an +//@ In fact, a type like `SomethingOrNothing` is so useful that it is already present in the standard library: It's called an //@ *option type*, written `Option`. Go check out its [documentation](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/option/index.html)! -//@ (And don't worry, there's indeed lots of material mentioned there that we did not cover yet.) +//@ (And don't worry, there's indeed lots of material mentioned there that we have not covered yet.) // ## Generic `impl`, Static functions //@ The types are so similar, that we can provide a generic function to construct a `SomethingOrNothing` @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ fn call_constructor(x: i32) -> SomethingOrNothing { } // ## Traits -//@ Now that we have a generic `SomethingOrNothing`, wouldn't it be nice to also gave a generic +//@ Now that we have a generic `SomethingOrNothing`, wouldn't it be nice to also have a generic //@ `vec_min`? Of course, we can't take the minimum of a vector of *any* type. It has to be a type //@ supporting a `min` operation. Rust calls such properties that we may demand of types *traits*. @@ -63,10 +63,10 @@ fn call_constructor(x: i32) -> SomethingOrNothing { //@ For now, just ignore the `Copy`, we will come back to this point later. //@ A `trait` is a lot like interfaces in Java: You define a bunch of functions //@ you want to have implemented, and their argument and return types.
-//@ The function `min` takes to arguments of the same type, but I made the +//@ The function `min` takes two arguments of the same type, but I made the //@ first argument the special `self` argument. I could, alternatively, have //@ made `min` a static function as follows: `fn min(a: Self, b: Self) -> Self`. -//@ However, in Rust one typically prefers methods over static function wherever possible. +//@ However, in Rust one typically prefers methods over static functions wherever possible. pub trait Minimum : Copy { fn min(self, b: Self) -> Self; } @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ pub fn vec_min(v: Vec) -> SomethingOrNothing { //@ Before going on, take a moment to ponder the flexibility of Rust's take on abstraction: //@ We just defined our own, custom trait (interface), and then implemented that trait //@ *for an existing type*. With the hierarchical approach of, e.g., C++ or Java, -//@ that's not possible: We cannot make an existing type suddenly also inherit from our abstract base class. +//@ that's not possible: We cannot make an existing type also inherit from our abstract base class after the fact. //@ //@ In case you are worried about performance, note that Rust performs *monomorphisation* //@ of generic functions: When you call `vec_min` with `T` being `i32`, Rust essentially goes