1.0.0[−]Primitive Type bool
The boolean type.
The bool
represents a value, which could only be either true
or false
. If you cast
a bool
into an integer, true
will be 1 and false
will be 0.
Basic usage
bool
implements various traits, such as BitAnd
, BitOr
, Not
, etc.,
which allow us to perform boolean operations using &
, |
and !
.
if
always demands a bool
value. assert!
, being an important macro in testing,
checks whether an expression returns true
.
let bool_val = true & false | false; assert!(!bool_val);Run
Examples
A trivial example of the usage of bool
,
let praise_the_borrow_checker = true; // using the `if` conditional if praise_the_borrow_checker { println!("oh, yeah!"); } else { println!("what?!!"); } // ... or, a match pattern match praise_the_borrow_checker { true => println!("keep praising!"), false => println!("you should praise!"), }Run
Also, since bool
implements the Copy
trait, we don't
have to worry about the move semantics (just like the integer and float primitives).
Now an example of bool
cast to integer type:
assert_eq!(true as i32, 1); assert_eq!(false as i32, 0);Run