// Copyright 2016 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT // file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at // http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT. // // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 or the MIT license // , at your // option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed // except according to those terms. // A test for something that NLL enables. It sometimes happens that // the `while let` pattern makes some borrows from a variable (in this // case, `x`) that you need in order to compute the next value for // `x`. The lexical checker makes this very painful. The NLL checker // does not. #![feature(nll)] use std::rc::Rc; #[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq)] enum Foo { Base(usize), Next(Rc), } fn find_base(mut x: Rc) -> Rc { while let Foo::Next(n) = &*x { x = n.clone(); } x } fn main() { let chain = Rc::new(Foo::Next(Rc::new(Foo::Base(44)))); let base = find_base(chain); assert_eq!(&*base, &Foo::Base(44)); }