Rust: Pattern Matching, Mastering the Match Operator
In our previous post, we explored how to model custom data using Enums, allowing a value to be exactly one of several distinct variants. But once you have data locked inside an Enum, how do you extract it and make decisions based on it? You could use a long, messy chain of if and else if statements. However, Rust provides a tool that is elegant and powerful, it will change how you write logic, the match operator. ...