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Rework generic fn examples to show monomorphized versions (#2671)
Something I always do when covering generic fns is I like to show the monomorphized versions of `pick` to make it clear to students what generics are doing behind the scenes. In my most recent class I tried going the other way around, showing the monomorphized versions first to more clearly motivate what generics are used for, and I liked the way it went. I think motivating generics by first showing code duplication and then showing how generics allow us to de-duplicate makes for a good teaching flow, and I think it also helps make things clearer to students coming from more dynamic languages that don't have an equivalent to generics. I also changed the `pick` fns to take a `bool` as the first argument because I think that makes things slightly clearer/cleaner, but I'm not married to that change either.
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@ -8,26 +8,48 @@ Rust supports generics, which lets you abstract algorithms or data structures
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(such as sorting or a binary tree) over the types used or stored.
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```rust,editable
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/// Pick `even` or `odd` depending on the value of `n`.
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fn pick<T>(n: i32, even: T, odd: T) -> T {
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if n % 2 == 0 {
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even
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fn pick<T>(cond: bool, left: T, right: T) -> T {
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if cond {
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left
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} else {
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odd
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right
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}
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}
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fn main() {
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println!("picked a number: {:?}", pick(97, 222, 333));
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println!("picked a string: {:?}", pick(28, "dog", "cat"));
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println!("picked a number: {:?}", pick(true, 222, 333));
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println!("picked a string: {:?}", pick(false, 'L', 'R'));
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}
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```
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<details>
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- It can be helpful to show the monomorphized versions of `pick`, either before
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talking about the generic `pick` in order to show how generics can reduce code
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duplication, or after talking about generics to show how monomorphization
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works.
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```rust
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fn pick_i32(cond: bool, left: i32, right: i32) -> i32 {
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if cond {
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left
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} else {
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right
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}
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}
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fn pick_char(cond: bool, left: char, right: char) -> char {
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if cond {
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left
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} else {
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right
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}
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}
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```
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- Rust infers a type for T based on the types of the arguments and return value.
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- In this example we only use the primitive types `i32` and `&str` for `T`, but
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- In this example we only use the primitive types `i32` and `char` for `T`, but
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we can use any type here, including user-defined types:
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```rust,ignore
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