rust-practice/examples/datatypes.txt

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Scalar types:
- A scalar type represents a single value.
- Integers:
- unsigned: (u8, u16, u32, u64, u128, usize)
- signed: (i8, i16, i32, i64, i128, isize)
- defaults to u32
- usize/isize change automatically depending on CPU architecture
- Floating point:
- f32, f64
- defaults to f64
- Booleans:
- true/false
- Char:
- Defined with '' as opposed to "" (which are used for strings)
- Can store unicode characters
Compound types:
- Compound types can group multiple values into one type.
Rust has two primitive compound types: tuples and arrays.
- Tuple:
- A tuple is a general way of grouping together a number of values with a variety of types into
one compound type. Tuples have a fixed length: once declared, they cannot grow or shrink in size.
- We create a tuple by writing a comma-separated list of values inside parentheses.
Each position in the tuple has a type, and the types of the different values in the tuple dont
have to be the same.
okay i cant be bothered typing more: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ch03-02-data-types.html
- Arrays:
- defined with square brackets []
- all elements must be of the same type
- fixed length
- Arrays are defined like so:
- let a: [i32; 5] = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
- the first square brackets contain the type and the length
- Array elements are fetched by using the index of the object a[0] = 1, a[1] = 2, etc