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Rust Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Rust Quick Start Guide The easiest way to learn Rust programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789616705
Length 180 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daniel Arbuckle Daniel Arbuckle
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Ready FREE CHAPTER 2. Basics of the Rust Language 3. The Big Ideas – Ownership and Borrowing 4. Making Decisions by Pattern Matching 5. One Data Type Representing Multiple Kinds of Data 6. Heap Memory and Smart Pointers 7. Generic Types 8. Important Standard Traits 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Transferring ownership

It's possible (and common) to transfer ownership of a value to a different scope. For example, we can do something like this:

{
let main_1 = Point2D {x: 10.0, y: 10.0};
receive_ownership(main_1);
receive_ownership(main_1); // This will cause a compiler error!
}

What is happening is that the main_1 variable is created and initialized under the ownership of the current scope (the value is pushed onto the stack), but then the ownership is transferred to the scope of the block expression that makes up the receive_ownership function's body, when the value is used as a function parameter. The compiler knows that the current scope is no longer responsible for cleaning up the value stored in main_1, because that job now belongs to a different scope.

The bytes that represent the value on the stack are copied to a new location on the stack, within...
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