Beginning Rust: Get Started with Rust 2021 Edition

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C. MilanesiBeginning Rusthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7208-4_20

20. Object-Oriented Programming

Carlo Milanesi¹  

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Bergamo, Italy

 

In this chapter, you will learn:

• How to implement destructors, that is, methods to run when an object is deallocated

• How to implement operator overloading, that is, methods that allow use of Rust operators with user-defined types

• How to implement infallible or fallible type converters

• Why Rust does not use data inheritance and how to do without it

• What are static dispatch and dynamic dispatch, how they are implemented, and when to use them

Peculiarities of Rust Object-Orientation

In previous chapters, we have already seen that ...