From 0c73609e6f2311295e95d6f96f8c747cfc4cba03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Torben Jonas Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 21:06:43 +0100 Subject: feat: Add variables5.rs exercise closes #260 --- info.toml | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'info.toml') diff --git a/info.toml b/info.toml index 3ca1824..2e6b0b4 100644 --- a/info.toml +++ b/info.toml @@ -41,6 +41,20 @@ value. We can't print out something that isn't there; try giving x a value! This is an error that can cause bugs that's very easy to make in any programming language -- thankfully the Rust compiler has caught this for us!""" +[[exercises]] +name = "variables5" +path = "exercises/variables/variables5.rs" +mode = "compile" +hint = """ +In variables3 we already learned how to make an immutable variable mutable +using a special keyword. Unfortunately this doesn't help us much in this exercise +because we want to assign a different typed value to an existing variable. Sometimes +you may also like to reuse existing variable names because you are just converting +values to different types like in this exercise. +Fortunately Rust has a powerful solution to this problem: 'Shadowing'! +You can read more about 'Shadowing' in the book's section 'Variables and Mutability'. +Try to solve this exercise afterwards using this technique.""" + # IF [[exercises]] -- cgit v1.2.3