1-minute brain exercise with clever Rust

Tired of reading long Rust documentation? Learn how smart Rust is in 1 min.
Let’s dive in:

1    let mut x = 10;       // Create a mutable variable
2    let y = &mut x;        // Borrow it mutably
3    println!("{}", x);     // Access the variable directly
4    // println!("{}", y);  // Uncommenting this will cause an error in line 3!

Here’s the cool part:

• Line 3 prints x just fine.
• But if you uncomment line 4, Rust will throw an error at line 3. Why? Because Rust checks if y will be used later, and if it will, it blocks access to x, as immutable borrow at line 3 can’t happen while y is still valid in scope.

Pretty clever, right?

Comments

[Real Actioner]

Haha, yes, it is!