# Make Rust Closure Types Namable This crate provides some types and macros that can create closures which type is namable. # Update 2018-07-25 v0.2.2 Add Recursion support (experimential) # Usage To use, as usual, ```rust #[macro_use] extern crate namable_closures; use namable_closures::Closure; fn main() { let add_ten:Closure = closure!(state=10 => move |i| i+*state); println!("{}",add_ten.stable_call_once(1)); //11 } ``` There are 5 variants of the types, each of them have 3 type variables. The `State` variable correspond to the captured environment of a closure. The `Input` must be a unit or tuple type, correspond to the arguments of the closure. The `Output` is the return type of the closure. In additional to letting you name the closure type, the function body cannot capture any variable by default, so all captures must be explicit.
Macro Grammar Struct
closure!(state=exp => |x,y| body(x,y,state)) Closure
closure!(state=exp => move |x,y| body(x,y,state)) ClosureOnce
closure!(mut state=exp => |x,y| body(x,y,state)) ClosureMut
closure!(mut state=exp => move |x,y| body(x,y,state)) ClosureOnce (with mutable state)
closure!(ref state=exp => move |x,y| body(x,y,state)) ClosureRef
closure!(ref mut state=exp => move |x,y| body(x,y,state)) ClosureRefMut
# DO NOT USE `Closure` or `ClosureMut` unless you know what you are doing In most cases you will need the `move` keyword, this will let your closure own the state. If you don't need to own the state, make sure your state expression represents a `&T` (for `Closure`s) or `&mut T` (for `ClosureMut`) types. # Nightly only features A shadow set of traits was defined to use before `fn_traits` and `unboxed_closures` features being stablized. Use of them is a bit ugly: ```rust let myclosure:Closure = closure!(s=&0 => || *s); fn1_expect_closure(||myclosure.stable_call()); let myclosure:ClosureRef<(),(i32,),i32> = closure!(s=&() => |i| i); fn2_expect_closure(|i|myclosure.stable_call((i,))); let myclosure:ClosureRef<(),(i32,i32),i32> = closure!(s=&() => |i,j| i+j); fn3_expect_closure(|i,j|myclosure.stable_call((i,j))); ``` If you don't mind having to compile in nightly Rust, you can add the following to `cargo.toml`: ```toml [dependencies.namable_closures] features = ["nightly"] ``` Now you can write the following: ```rust let myclosure:Closure = closure!(s=&0 => || *s); fn1_expect_closure(||myclosure()); let myclosure:ClosureRef<(),(i32,),i32> = closure!(s=&() => |i| i); fn2_expect_closure(|i|myclosure(i)); let myclosure:ClosureRef<(),(i32,i32),i32> = closure!(s=&() => |i,j| i+j); fn3_expect_closure(myclosure); ```