SUMMARY.md

The Rust Reference

Introduction

• Notation

• Lexical structure

  • Input format
  • Keywords
  • Identifiers
  • Comments
  • Whitespace
  • Tokens

• Macros

  • Macros By Example
  • Procedural Macros

• Crates and source files

• Conditional compilation

• Items

  • Modules
  • Extern crates
  • Use declarations
  • Functions
  • Type aliases
  • Structs
  • Enumerations
  • Unions
  • Constant items
  • Static items
  • Traits
  • Implementations
  • External blocks
  • Generic parameters
  • Associated Items

• Attributes

  • Testing
  • Derive
  • Diagnostics
  • Code generation
  • Limits
  • Type System

• Statements and expressions

  • Statements
  • Expressions
    • Literal expressions
    • Path expressions
    • Block expressions
    • Operator expressions
    • Grouped expressions
    • Array and index expressions
    • Tuple and index expressions
    • Struct expressions
    • Call expressions
    • Method call expressions
    • Field access expressions
    • Closure expressions
    • Loop expressions
    • Range expressions
    • If and if let expressions
    • Match expressions
    • Return expressions
    • Await expressions
    • Underscore expressions

• Patterns

• Type system

  • Types
    • Boolean type
    • Numeric types
    • Textual types
    • Never type
    • Tuple types
    • Array types
    • Slice types
    • Struct types
    • Enumerated types
    • Union types
    • Function item types
    • Closure types
    • Pointer types
    • Function pointer types
    • Trait object types
    • Impl trait type
    • Type parameters
    • Inferred type
  • Dynamically Sized Types
  • Type layout
  • Interior mutability
  • Subtyping and Variance
  • Trait and lifetime bounds
  • Type coercions
  • Destructors
  • Lifetime elision

• Special types and traits

• Names

  • Namespaces
  • Scopes
  • Preludes
  • Paths
  • Name resolution
  • Visibility and privacy

• Memory model

  • Memory allocation and lifetime
  • Variables

• Linkage

• Inline assembly

• Unsafety

  • Unsafe functions
  • Unsafe blocks
  • Behavior considered undefined
  • Behavior not considered unsafe

• Constant Evaluation

• Application Binary Interface

• The Rust runtime

• Appendices

  • Macro Follow-Set Ambiguity Formal Specification
  • Influences
  • Glossary