RsRustBeginnerEditable example10 min

Borrowing And References

Borrowing And References in practical Rust programs, with editable notebook code and a focused exercise.

Lesson notes

This lesson turns borrowing and references into a small example you can edit, copy and run locally.

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Editable notebook cell

Starter code

fn main() {
    let name = "Ada";
    println!("Hello {}", name);
}

Output

Editable example

Expected output:
Hello Ada

Live execution for this language is coming soon. You can edit, copy and run this code locally.

Try this

Change the sample data, predict the output and note what concept changed.

Hint: Make the smallest possible edit first.