Module show_notes::e010

Macros rule!

• Date: 2016-01-18
• Subject: Using Rust’s macro system, its limitations, and its future.
• Audio

Notes

Because of the way macros are exported—before name resolution on crates occurs—the documentation for the macros defined in the source for this episode occurs in the Macros section of the show_notes crate documentation, rather than within the documentation for this module. (See the Rust Book discussion of documenting macros for details.) Even so, the source is still in this module; see the implementations for details.

Links

• Julia Evans: “Why I (Heart) Rust”
• Steve Klabnik: “IntermezzOS” (a small teaching OS built in Rust)
• Rust book: Macros
• Rust by Example: Macros
• Rust reference: Macros
• “Macro by Example” (original paper)
• Nick Cameron:
  • Macros
  • Macros in Rust
    • Part 1: macro_rules!
    • Part 2: procedural macros
    • Part 3: hygiene
    • Part 4: scoping and import/export
    • Part 5: current problems and possible solutions
    • Part 6: more issues with macro_rules!
  • concat_idents and macros in ident positions
  • Macro plans, overview
  • Macro hygiene in all its guises and variations
  • Sets of scopes macro hygiene
  • Macro plans: syntax
  • Procedural macros, framework

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Functions

• demonstrate_try
  Demonstrate how try! works in practice.

Type Aliases

• TryResult
  Trivial alias for Result for convenience.