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The Rust Programming Language
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The Rust Programming Language

by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
552 pages
13h 50m
English
No Starch Press
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17OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING FEATURES OF RUST

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Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a way of modeling programs. Objects came from Simula in the 1960s. Those objects influenced Alan Kay’s programming architecture in which objects pass messages to each other. He coined the term object-oriented programming in 1967 to describe this architecture. Many competing definitions describe what OOP is; some definitions would classify Rust as object oriented, but other definitions would not. In this chapter, we’ll explore certain characteristics that are commonly considered object oriented and how those characteristics translate to idiomatic Rust. We’ll then ...

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