Structs

• like typescript interfaces

•   struct User {
        active: bool,
        username: String,
        email: String,
        sign_in_count: u64,
    }

• instantiating:

• • User {
        active: true,
        username: String::from("someusername123"),
        email: String::from("[email protected]"),
        sign_in_count: 1,
    };

• individual fields cannot be marked as mut. it must be the whole struct instance
• supports var name shorthand, like js

• • fn build_user(email: String, username: String) -> User {
        User {
            active: true,
            username,
            email,
            sign_in_count: 1,
        }
    }

• has Struct Update Syntax
• • like js spread operator
• • • two dots instead of 3

• • fn main() {
        let user2 = User {
            email: String::from("[email protected]"),
            ..user1
        };
    }

Tuple Structs

• literally just a tuple with a name
• struct Color(i32, i32, i32);
• typescript equivalent: type color = [number, number, number]
• initalized like a function: let black = Color(0, 0, 0);
• very strict. two seperate tuple structs with same name cannot be used interchangably

Implementations

• literally just classes instead of types

• uses self instead of the javascript this

• self will ALWAYS be a reference

•   struct Rectangle {
        width: u32,
        height: u32,
    }
  
    impl Rectangle {
        fn area(&self) -> u32 {
            self.width * self.height
        }
    }

• if a func does not have &self as the first argument, it becomes a static method

• • Struct::method syntax, not . syntax

• • impl Rectangle {
        fn square(size: u32) -> Self {
            Self {
                width: size,
                height: size,
            }
        }
    }
    
    // later
    let square = Rectangle::square(5);

• they can have multiple impl blocks for some reason????

• • apparently example in book ch10?

• • There’s no reason to separate these methods into multiple impl blocks here, but this is valid syntax. We’ll see a case in which multiple impl blocks are useful in Chapter 10, where we discuss generic types and traits.