Beginning Rust: Get Started with Rust 2021 Edition

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C. MilanesiBeginning Rusthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7208-4_10

10. Defining Generic Functions and Types

Carlo Milanesi¹  

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Bergamo, Italy

 

In this chapter, you will learn:

• How to write a single function definition, whose invocations can efficiently handle different data types

• How to use type inference to avoid the need to specify the types used by generic functions

• How to write a single struct, tuple-struct, or enum type, whose instances can efficiently contain different data types

• How to use two important standard generic enums, Option and Result, to represent optional data or fallible functions results

• How some standard functions ease the handling of ...