Summary

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In this module, you learned:

  • How to halt a Rust program in the face of unrecoverable errors by using panic!.
  • How to represent the possibility of the absence of values by using the Option enum.
  • How to represent operations by using the Result enum.
  • How to use pattern matching to safely access all possible values of a given type.

In the next module in this learning path, you'll learn about one of Rust's most novel aspects, the borrow checker, and how it can prevent many types of bugs in your code.