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<ol class="chapter"><li><a href="ch01-00-introduction.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">1.</strong> Introduction</a></li><li><ol class="section"><li><a href="ch01-01-installation.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">1.1.</strong> Installation</a></li><li><a href="ch01-02-hello-world.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">1.2.</strong> Hello, World!</a></li><li><a href="ch01-03-how-rust-is-made-and-nightly-rust.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">1.3.</strong> How Rust is Made and “Nightly Rust”</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="ch02-00-guessing-game-tutorial.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">2.</strong> Guessing Game Tutorial</a></li><li><a href="ch03-00-common-programming-concepts.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">3.</strong> Common Programming Concepts</a></li><li><ol class="section"><li><a href="ch03-01-variables-and-mutability.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">3.1.</strong> Variables and Mutability</a></li><li><a href="ch03-02-data-types.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">3.2.</strong> Data Types</a></li><li><a href="ch03-03-how-functions-work.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">3.3.</strong> How Functions Work</a></li><li><a href="ch03-04-comments.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">3.4.</strong> Comments</a></li><li><a href="ch03-05-control-flow.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">3.5.</strong> Control Flow</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="ch04-00-understanding-ownership.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">4.</strong> Understanding Ownership</a></li><li><ol class="section"><li><a href="ch04-01-what-is-ownership.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">4.1.</strong> What is Ownership?</a></li><li><a href="ch04-02-references-and-borrowing.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">4.2.</strong> References & Borrowing</a></li><li><a href="ch04-03-slices.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">4.3.</strong> Slices</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="ch05-00-structs.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">5.</strong> Using Structs to Structure Related Data</a></li><li><ol class="section"><li><a 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Testing</a></li><li><ol class="section"><li><a href="ch11-01-writing-tests.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">11.1.</strong> Writing tests</a></li><li><a href="ch11-02-running-tests.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">11.2.</strong> Running tests</a></li><li><a href="ch11-03-test-organization.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">11.3.</strong> Test Organization</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="ch12-00-an-io-project.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">12.</strong> An I/O Project: Building a Command Line Program</a></li><li><ol class="section"><li><a href="ch12-01-accepting-command-line-arguments.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">12.1.</strong> Accepting Command Line Arguments</a></li><li><a href="ch12-02-reading-a-file.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">12.2.</strong> Reading a File</a></li><li><a href="ch12-03-improving-error-handling-and-modularity.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">12.3.</strong> Refactoring to Improve Modularity and Error Handling</a></li><li><a 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Leaking Memory is Safe</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="ch16-00-concurrency.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">16.</strong> Fearless Concurrency</a></li><li><ol class="section"><li><a href="ch16-01-threads.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">16.1.</strong> Threads</a></li><li><a href="ch16-02-message-passing.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">16.2.</strong> Message Passing</a></li><li><a href="ch16-03-shared-state.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">16.3.</strong> Shared State</a></li><li><a href="ch16-04-extensible-concurrency-sync-and-send.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">16.4.</strong> Extensible Concurrency: Sync and Send</a></li></ol></li><li><a href="ch17-00-oop.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">17.</strong> Is Rust an Object-Oriented Programming Language?</a></li><li><ol class="section"><li><a href="ch17-01-what-is-oo.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">17.1.</strong> What Does Object-Oriented Mean?</a></li><li><a href="ch17-02-trait-objects.html"><strong aria-hidden="true">17.2.</strong> Trait 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<a class="header" href="appendix-01-keywords.html#appendix-a-keywords" id="appendix-a-keywords"><h2>Appendix A: Keywords</h2></a>
<p>The following keywords are reserved by the Rust language and may not be used as
identifiers such as names of functions, variables, parameters, struct fields,
modules, crates, constants, macros, static values, attributes, types, traits,
or lifetimes.</p>
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<ul>
<li><code>as</code> - primitive casting, disambiguating the specific trait containing an
item, or renaming items in <code>use</code> and <code>extern crate</code> statements</li>
<li><code>break</code> - exit a loop immediately</li>
<li><code>const</code> - constant items and constant raw pointers</li>
<li><code>continue</code> - continue to the next loop iteration</li>
<li><code>crate</code> - external crate linkage or a macro variable representing the crate
in which the macro is defined</li>
<li><code>else</code> - fallback for <code>if</code> and <code>if let</code> control flow constructs</li>
<li><code>enum</code> - defining an enumeration</li>
<li><code>extern</code> - external crate, function, and variable linkage</li>
<li><code>false</code> - Boolean false literal</li>
<li><code>fn</code> - function definition and function pointer type</li>
<li><code>for</code> - iterator loop, part of trait impl syntax, and higher-ranked lifetime
syntax</li>
<li><code>if</code> - conditional branching</li>
<li><code>impl</code> - inherent and trait implementation block</li>
<li><code>in</code> - part of <code>for</code> loop syntax</li>
<li><code>let</code> - variable binding</li>
<li><code>loop</code> - unconditional, infinite loop</li>
<li><code>match</code> - pattern matching</li>
<li><code>mod</code> - module declaration</li>
<li><code>move</code> - makes a closure take ownership of all its captures</li>
<li><code>mut</code> - denotes mutability in references, raw pointers, and pattern bindings</li>
<li><code>pub</code> - denotes public visibility in struct fields, <code>impl</code> blocks, and modules</li>
<li><code>ref</code> - by-reference binding</li>
<li><code>return</code> - return from function</li>
<li><code>Self</code> - type alias for the type implementing a trait</li>
<li><code>self</code> - method subject or current module</li>
<li><code>static</code> - global variable or lifetime lasting the entire program execution</li>
<li><code>struct</code> - structure definition</li>
<li><code>super</code> - parent module of the current module</li>
<li><code>trait</code> - trait definition</li>
<li><code>true</code> - Boolean true literal</li>
<li><code>type</code> - type alias and associated type definition</li>
<li><code>unsafe</code> - denotes unsafe code, functions, traits, and implementations</li>
<li><code>use</code> - import symbols into scope</li>
<li><code>where</code> - type constraint clauses</li>
<li><code>while</code> - conditional loop</li>
</ul>
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<p>These keywords do not have any functionality, but are reserved by Rust for
potential future use.</p>
<ul>
<li><code>abstract</code></li>
<li><code>alignof</code></li>
<li><code>become</code></li>
<li><code>box</code></li>
<li><code>do</code></li>
<li><code>final</code></li>
<li><code>macro</code></li>
<li><code>offsetof</code></li>
<li><code>override</code></li>
<li><code>priv</code></li>
<li><code>proc</code></li>
<li><code>pure</code></li>
<li><code>sizeof</code></li>
<li><code>typeof</code></li>
<li><code>unsized</code></li>
<li><code>virtual</code></li>
<li><code>yield</code></li>
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