https://danielcorreia.org/tags/rust/Recent content in Rust on Daniel CorreiaHugoen-usTue, 12 Sep 2023 10:52:47 +0200https://danielcorreia.org/til/rust/ownership/Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:52:47 +0200https://danielcorreia.org/til/rust/ownership/<h1 id="ownership-and-borrowing-in-rust">Ownership and Borrowing in Rust</h1> <h2 id="ownership">Ownership</h2> <p>The Book<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> states the following as the three rules of ownership in Rust:</p> <ol> <li>Each value in Rust has an owner.</li> <li>There can only be one owner at a time.</li> <li>When the owner goes out of scope, the value will be dropped.</li> </ol> <p>Going out of scope essentially means coming to the end of the trailing curly brace &lsquo;}&rsquo; of the one in which a value was introduced in.</p>