copy-editing: if
I decided to break if-let out, as it's too complex for this part, but moving if that late seems silly too.
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* [Traits](traits.md)
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* [Operators and Overloading](operators-and-overloading.md)
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* [Generics](generics.md)
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* [if let](if-let.md)
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* [Trait Objects](trait-objects.md)
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* [Closures](closures.md)
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* [Universal Function Call Syntax](ufcs.md)
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% if let
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COMING SOON
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% if
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Rust's take on `if` is not particularly complex, but it's much more like the
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`if` you'll find in a dynamically typed language than in a more traditional
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systems language. So let's talk about it, to make sure you grasp the nuances.
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Rust’s take on `if` is not particularly complex, but it’s much more like the
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`if` you’ll find in a dynamically typed language than in a more traditional
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systems language. So let’s talk about it, to make sure you grasp the nuances.
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`if` is a specific form of a more general concept, the *branch*. The name comes
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`if` is a specific form of a more general concept, the ‘branch’. The name comes
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from a branch in a tree: a decision point, where depending on a choice,
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multiple paths can be taken.
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If we changed the value of `x` to something else, this line would not print.
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More specifically, if the expression after the `if` evaluates to `true`, then
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the block is executed. If it's `false`, then it is not.
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the block is executed. If it’s `false`, then it is not.
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If you want something to happen in the `false` case, use an `else`:
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```{rust}
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```rust
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let x = 5;
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if x == 5 {
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This is all pretty standard. However, you can also do this:
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```{rust}
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```rust
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let x = 5;
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let y = if x == 5 {
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Which we can (and probably should) write like this:
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```{rust}
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```rust
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let x = 5;
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let y = if x == 5 { 10 } else { 15 }; // y: i32
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```
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This reveals two interesting things about Rust: it is an expression-based
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language, and semicolons are different from semicolons in other 'curly brace
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and semicolon'-based languages. These two things are related.
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## Expressions vs. Statements
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Rust is primarily an expression based language. There are only two kinds of
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statements, and everything else is an expression.
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So what's the difference? Expressions return a value, and statements do not.
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In many languages, `if` is a statement, and therefore, `let x = if ...` would
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make no sense. But in Rust, `if` is an expression, which means that it returns
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a value. We can then use this value to initialize the binding.
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Speaking of which, bindings are a kind of the first of Rust's two statements.
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The proper name is a *declaration statement*. So far, `let` is the only kind
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of declaration statement we've seen. Let's talk about that some more.
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In some languages, variable bindings can be written as expressions, not just
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statements. Like Ruby:
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```{ruby}
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x = y = 5
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```
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In Rust, however, using `let` to introduce a binding is _not_ an expression. The
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following will produce a compile-time error:
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```{ignore}
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let x = (let y = 5); // expected identifier, found keyword `let`
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```
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The compiler is telling us here that it was expecting to see the beginning of
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an expression, and a `let` can only begin a statement, not an expression.
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Note that assigning to an already-bound variable (e.g. `y = 5`) is still an
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expression, although its value is not particularly useful. Unlike C, where an
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assignment evaluates to the assigned value (e.g. `5` in the previous example),
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in Rust the value of an assignment is the unit type `()` (which we'll cover later).
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The second kind of statement in Rust is the *expression statement*. Its
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purpose is to turn any expression into a statement. In practical terms, Rust's
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grammar expects statements to follow other statements. This means that you use
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semicolons to separate expressions from each other. This means that Rust
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looks a lot like most other languages that require you to use semicolons
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at the end of every line, and you will see semicolons at the end of almost
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every line of Rust code you see.
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What is this exception that makes us say "almost"? You saw it already, in this
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code:
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```{rust}
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let x = 5;
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let y: i32 = if x == 5 { 10 } else { 15 };
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```
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Note that I've added the type annotation to `y`, to specify explicitly that I
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want `y` to be an integer.
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This is not the same as this, which won't compile:
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```{ignore}
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let x = 5;
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let y: i32 = if x == 5 { 10; } else { 15; };
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```
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Note the semicolons after the 10 and 15. Rust will give us the following error:
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```text
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error: mismatched types: expected `i32`, found `()` (expected i32, found ())
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```
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We expected an integer, but we got `()`. `()` is pronounced *unit*, and is a
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special type in Rust's type system. In Rust, `()` is _not_ a valid value for a
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variable of type `i32`. It's only a valid value for variables of the type `()`,
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which aren't very useful. Remember how we said statements don't return a value?
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Well, that's the purpose of unit in this case. The semicolon turns any
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expression into a statement by throwing away its value and returning unit
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instead.
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There's one more time in which you won't see a semicolon at the end of a line
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of Rust code. For that, we'll need our next concept: functions.
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TODO: `if let`
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This works because `if` is an expression. The value of the expression is the
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value of the last expression in whichever branch was chosen. An `if` without an
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`else` always results in `()` as the value.
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