From 8aee19c88d0361660ce68b0075823f71228d1fc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amoelle <amoelle@proton.me>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2025 17:14:12 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] references and borrowing

---
 references_and_borrowing/src/main.rs | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/references_and_borrowing/src/main.rs b/references_and_borrowing/src/main.rs
index e7a11a9..75cebfc 100644
--- a/references_and_borrowing/src/main.rs
+++ b/references_and_borrowing/src/main.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,59 @@
 fn main() {
-    println!("Hello, world!");
+    let mut string = String::from("forsen");
+
+    let len = calculate_length(&string);
+    println!("The length of string {string} is {len}");
+
+    add_string(&mut string);
+
+    //let r1 = &mut string;
+    //let r2 = &mut string;
+    //println!("{} {}", r1, r2);
+    // this won't work because we can't borrow string more than once at a time
+
+    let r1 = &mut string;
+    println!("{r1}");
+    let r2 = &mut string;
+    println!("{r2}");
+    // but we can borrow again once we use our variable
+
+    // We also cannot have a mutable reference while we have an immutable one to the same value
+    // let r1 = &s; // no problem
+    // let r2 = &s; // no problem
+    // let r3 = &mut s; // BIG PROBLEM
+    // println!("{}, {}, and {}", r1, r2, r3);
+
+    let r3 = &string; // not a problem
+    let r4 = &string; // we can
+    println!("{r3} and {r4}");
+    // Variables r1 and r2 will not be used after this point.
+
+    let r5 = &mut string;
+    println!("{r5}");
+
+    // let reference_to_nothing = dangle();
+    let _reference_to_something = no_dangle();
 }
+
+fn calculate_length(s: &String) -> usize {
+    s.len()
+}
+
+fn add_string(s1: &mut String) {
+    s1.push_str(" is bald"); // borrowing wouldn't work here if we didn't make our string mutable
+}
+
+//fn dangle() -> &String { // dangle returns a reference to a String
+//    let s = String::from("string"); // s is a new String
+//
+//    &s // we return a reference to the String, s
+//}      // Here, s goes out of scope, and is dropped, so its memory goes away.
+
+fn no_dangle() -> String {
+    String::from("string")
+}
+
+/*
+    At any given time, you can have either one mutable reference or any number of immutable references.
+    References must always be valid.
+*/