andreabergia.com
...fn match_cmp(input) {
if let Ok(rule) = match_eq(input) { return rule; }
if let Ok(rule) = match_neq(input) { return rule; }
if let Ok(rule) = match_lt(input) { return rule; }
if let Ok(rule) = match_lte(input) { return rule; }
if let Ok(rule) = match_gt(input) { return rule; }
if...
Rust Walkthroughs
2025-08-27
~3 min read
featherweightmusings.blogspot.co.nz
...As I said earlier, if you want to match some `x` with type `&T` you can dereference once in the match clause or match the reference in every arm of the match expression. Example:
enum Enum1 { Var1, Var2, Var3}fn foo(x: &Enum1) { match *x { // Option 1: deref here. Var1...
Community Updates
2014-04-26
~9 min read
www.wakunguma.com
...let val = (|(..):(_,_),(|__@_|__)|)((&*"\\",'🤔'),{})
Match
fn r#match() {
let val: () = match match match match match () {
() => ()
} {
() => ()
} {
() => ()
} {
() => ()
} {
() => ()
};
assert_eq!(val, ());
}
This is just matching nested match statements.
Match nested if
fn match_nested_if() {
let val = match () {
() if if if if true {true} else {false} {true} else {false} {true} else {false} => true,
_ => false...
Observations/Thoughts
2025-06-25
~12 min read
zkrising.com
...Which brings us to match. What is a match?// match is a list of patterns and what to do if they match.
//
// match EXPR {
// PAT => EXPR
// PAT => EXPR
// ..
// }
match (a, b) {
(5, x) => {
// if (a,b) matches (5,x), this block is executed
},
(x, 5) => {
// same thing: if (a,b...
Rust Walkthroughs
2024-11-06
~7 min read
github.com
## Summary
Allow attributes on match arms.
## Motivation
One sometimes wishes to annotate the arms of match statements with
attributes, for example with conditional compilation `#[cfg]`s or
with branch weights (the latter is the most important use).
For the conditional compilation, the work-around is duplicating the
whole containing function...
RFC 49
RFC
2014-03-20
~1 min read
github.com
## Summary
[summary]: #summary
The current compiler implements a more expansive semantics for pattern
matching than was originally intended. This RFC introduces several
mechanisms to reign in these semantics without actually breaking
(much, if any) extant code:
- Introduce a feature-gated attribute `#[structural_match]` which can
be applied to a struct...
RFC 1445
RFC
2015-02-06
~17 min read
doc.rust-lang.org
Concise Control Flow with if let and let...else
The if let syntax lets you combine if and let into a less verbose way to handle values that match one pattern while ignoring the rest. Consider the program in Listing 6-6 that matches on an Option<u8> value in...
The Rust Programming Language
Book
2024-02-01
~4 min read
github.com
## Summary
[summary]: #summary
Extend Rust's pattern matching exhaustiveness checks to cover the integer types: `u8`, `u16`, `u32`, `u64`, `u128`, `usize`, `i8`, `i16`, `i32`, `i64`, `i128`, `isize` and `char`.
```rust
fn matcher_full(x: u8) {
match x { // ok
0 ..= 31 => { /* ... */ }
32 => { /* ... */ }
33 ..= 255 => { /* ... */ }
}
}
fn matcher_incomplete(x: u8) {
match x...
RFC 2591
RFC
2018-10-11
~3 min read
github.com
## Summary
[summary]: #summary
This RFC proposes to add a new kind of pattern, the **guard pattern.** Like match arm guards, guard patterns restrict another pattern to match only if an expression evaluates to `true`. The syntax for guard patterns, `pat if condition`, is compatible with match arm guard syntax, so...
RFC 3637
RFC
2024-05-13
~12 min read
doc.rust-lang.org
...Whether a Pattern Might Fail to Match
Patterns come in two forms: refutable and irrefutable. Patterns that will match for any possible value passed are irrefutable. An example would be x in the statement let x = 5; because x matches anything and therefore cannot fail to match. Patterns that can...
The Rust Programming Language
Book
2024-02-01
~2 min read
github.com
## Table of contents
* [Summary][summary]
* [Motivation][motivation]
* [Detailed design][design]
* [Syntax][syntax]
* [Evolution][evolution]
* [Concrete syntax][concrete-syntax]
* [Expansion concerns][expansion-concerns]
* [Core API][core-api]
* [RegexBuilder][regexbuilder]
* [Replacer][replacer]
* [quote][quote]
* [RegexSet][regexset]
* [The `bytes` submodule][the-bytes-submodule]
* [Drawbacks][drawbacks]
* [Guaranteed linear time matching][guaranteed-linear-time-matching...
RFC 1620
RFC
2016-05-11
~30 min read
notes.iveselov.info
hashtagIntroductionIn Haskell, pattern matching is mostly nice and easy. It might be made more complicated by strictness annotations (i.e. whether to evaluate sub-patterns lazily or strictly) or irrefutability annotations, but it doesn't have any special interactions with ownership, borrowing and mutability which are bread and butter of...
News & Blog Posts
2020-03-31
~9 min read
github.com
## Summary
[summary]: #summary
Various changes to the match ergonomics rules:
- On edition ≥ 2024, `&` and `&mut` patterns only remove a single layer of
references.
- On edition ≥ 2024, `mut` on an identifier pattern does not force its binding
mode to by-value.
- On all editions, `&` patterns can match against `&mut` references.
- On...
RFC 3627
RFC
2024-05-06
~15 min read
doc.rust-lang.org
...fn age() -> u32 {
15
}
fn main() {
println!("Tell me what type of person you are");
match age() {
0 => println!("I haven't celebrated my first birthday yet"),
// Could `match` 1 ..= 12 directly but then what age
// would the child be?
// Could `match` n and use an `if` guard, but would...
Rust by Example
Book
2024-01-01
~1 min read
github.com
...Like the `for` loop before it, this construct can be transformed in a syntax-lowering pass into the
equivalent `match` statement. The `expression` is given to `match` and the `pattern` becomes a match
arm. If there is an `else` block, that becomes the body of the `_ => {}` arm, otherwise `_ => {}` is
provided...
RFC 160
RFC
2014-08-26
~5 min read
trifectatech.org
...when #[loop_match] and #[const_continue] are configured out (e.g. with #[cfg_attr(feature = "loop_match", loop_match)]), the code behaves like before.
Benchmarks
So, how much does this help? As always, it depends.
Your algorithm must actually look like a loop with a match to benefit at all...
Observations/Thoughts
2025-09-10
~9 min read
xd009642.github.io
...impl Match for BinaryStreamMatcher {
fn temporal_match(&self, match_state: &mut MatchState) -> Option<bool> {
let json = ValidJsonMatcher;
let len = match_state.len();
let last = match_state.last();
if len == 1 && json.unary_match(last).unwrap() {
match_state.keep_message(0);
Some(true)
} else if last.is_binary() {
// We won't...
Project/Tooling Updates
2025-03-05
~3 min read
sailor.li
...running 3 tests
test accursed_match ... bench: 1,681.19 ns/iter (+/- 245.20)
test optimised_match ... bench: 1,681.06 ns/iter (+/- 261.87)
test regular_match ... bench: 2,339.23 ns/iter (+/- 74.51)
Using arrays of [0u8; 16384]:
test accursed_match ... bench: 9,373.10 ns/iter...
Rust Walkthroughs
2025-08-27
~5 min read
adventures.michaelfbryan.com
Rust 1.26 introduced a nifty little feature called Basic Slice
Patterns which lets you pattern match on slices with a known length. Later on
in Rust 1.42, this was extended to allow using .. to match on
“everything else”.
As features go this may seem like a small addition...
Rust Walkthroughs
2021-08-18
~3 min read
systemf.epfl.ch
...The brown lookbehind has
n
=
1
since it always matches exactly 1 character.
m
=
2
because that is the shortest matching length of aa.
The blue lookbehind has
n
=
2
since it always matches exactly 2 characters. The surrounding
lookbehinds do not contribute to the match length.
m
=
1
because...
Observations/Thoughts
2025-07-16
~27 min read