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Mastering Rust. - Second Edition

You're reading from  Mastering Rust. - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789346572
Pages 554 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Rahul Sharma Rahul Sharma
Profile icon Rahul Sharma

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with Rust 2. Managing Projects with Cargo 3. Tests, Documentation, and Benchmarks 4. Types, Generics, and Traits 5. Memory Management and Safety 6. Error Handling 7. Advanced Concepts 8. Concurrency 9. Metaprogramming with Macros 10. Unsafe Rust and Foreign Function Interfaces 11. Logging 12. Network Programming in Rust 13. Building Web Applications with Rust 14. Interacting with Databases in Rust 15. Rust on the Web with WebAssembly 16. Building Desktop Applications with Rust 17. Debugging 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Built-in macros in the standard library

Apart from println!, there are other useful macros in the standard library that are implemented using the macro_rules! macro. Knowing about them will help us appreciate the places and situations where using a macro is a cleaner solution, while not sacrificing readability.

Some of these macros are as follows:

  • dbg!: This allows you to print the value of expressions with their values. This macro moves whatever is passed to it, so if you only want to give read access to their types, you need to pass a reference to this macro instead. It's quite handy as a tracing macro for expressions during runtime.
  • compile_error!: This macro can be used to report an error from code at compile time. This is a handy macro to use when you are building your own macro and want to report any syntactic or semantic errors to the user.
  • concat!: This macro can...
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