Beginning Rust: Get Started with Rust 2021 Edition

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C. MilanesiBeginning Rusthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7208-4_19

19. Using Traits

Carlo Milanesi¹  

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Bergamo, Italy

 

In this chapter, you will learn:

• How traits can avoid incomprehensible compiler error messages when invoking generic functions

• How the bounding of a generic parameter can be monolithic, or it can be broken up into several traits

• What little you can do with an unbounded generic parameter

• How traits create a scope for the functions they contain

• How to create traits containing multiple methods

• How to bound generic parameters to multiple traits

• How to use trait inheritance

• How to use traits to add methods to external types

• How to implement the standard ...