Mastering Rust - Second Edition

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The project resides in a folder named threads_demo in the Chapter08/ directory."

A block of code is set as follows:

fn main() {    println!("Hello Rust!");}

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

[dependencies]serde = "1.0.8"crossbeam = "0.6.0"typenum = "1.10.0"

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ rustc main.rs$ cargo build

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that ...