The Complete Rust Programming Reference Guide

Structs

In Rust, there are three forms of structs that we can declare. The simplest of them is the unit struct, which is written with the struct keyword, followed by its name and a semicolon at the end. The following code example defines a unit struct:

// unit_struct.rsstruct Dummy;fn main() {    let value = Dummy;}

We have defined a unit struct called Dummy in the preceding code. In main, we can initialize this type using only its name. value now contains an instance of Dummy and is a zero sized value. Unit structs do not take any size at runtime as they have no data associated with them. There are very few use cases for unit structs. They can be used to model entities with no data or state associated with them. Another use case is to use them ...