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Macros for all your token pasting needs
The nightly-only concat_idents!
macro in the Rust standard library is
notoriously underpowered in that its concatenated identifiers can only refer to
existing items, they can never be used to define something new.
This crate provides a flexible way to paste together identifiers in a macro, including using pasted identifiers to define new items.
[dependencies]
paste = "0.1"
This approach works with any stable or nightly Rust compiler 1.30+.
Pasting identifiers
There are two entry points, paste::expr!
for macros in expression position and
paste::item!
for macros in item position.
Within either one, identifiers inside [<
...>]
are pasted together to form a
single identifier.
// Macro in item position: at module scope or inside of an impl block.
paste::item! {
// Defines a const called `QRST`.
const [<Q R S T>]: &str = "success!";
}
fn main() {
// Macro in expression position: inside a function body.
assert_eq!(
paste::expr! { [<Q R S T>].len() },
8,
);
}
More elaborate examples
This program demonstrates how you may want to bundle a paste invocation inside
of a more convenient user-facing macro of your own. Here the routes!(A, B)
macro expands to a vector containing ROUTE_A
and ROUTE_B
.
const ROUTE_A: &str = "/a";
const ROUTE_B: &str = "/b";
macro_rules! routes {
($($route:ident),*) => {{
paste::expr! {
vec![$( [<ROUTE_ $route>] ),*]
}
}}
}
fn main() {
let routes = routes!(A, B);
assert_eq!(routes, vec!["/a", "/b"]);
}
The next example shows a macro that generates accessor methods for some struct fields.
macro_rules! make_a_struct_and_getters {
($name:ident { $($field:ident),* }) => {
// Define a struct. This expands to:
//
// pub struct S {
// a: String,
// b: String,
// c: String,
// }
pub struct $name {
$(
$field: String,
)*
}
// Build an impl block with getters. This expands to:
//
// impl S {
// pub fn get_a(&self) -> &str { &self.a }
// pub fn get_b(&self) -> &str { &self.b }
// pub fn get_c(&self) -> &str { &self.c }
// }
paste::item! {
impl $name {
$(
pub fn [<get_ $field>](&self) -> &str {
&self.$field
}
)*
}
}
}
}
make_a_struct_and_getters!(S { a, b, c });
fn call_some_getters(s: &S) -> bool {
s.get_a() == s.get_b() && s.get_c().is_empty()
}
Case conversion
Use $var:lower
or $var:upper
in the segment list to convert an interpolated
segment to lower- or uppercase as part of the paste. For example, [<ld_ $reg:lower _expr>]
would paste to ld_bc_expr
if invoked with $reg=Bc
.
Use $var:snake
to convert CamelCase input to snake_case.
Use $var:camel
to convert snake_case to CamelCase.
These compose, so for example $var:snake:upper
would give you SCREAMING_CASE.
The precise Unicode conversions are as defined by str::to_lowercase
and
str::to_uppercase
.
License
Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT license at your option.Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this crate by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.