I'm guessing matching with a reference will help: mpl<T: Clone> Clone for Coll<T> { fn clone (&self) -> Coll<T> { match *self { A(x,ref y) => A(x,y.clone()), B(x,ref y) => B(x,y.clone()) } } }
(Haven't tried it though) // Magnus Holm On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Artella Coding <artella.cod...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Suppose I have the enum : > > enum Coll<T> { > A(f64,T), > B(f64,T) > } > > I know that the compiler can automatically derive the Clone trait for the > above. However I would like to manually implement it and was unsuccessful in > my attempt. I tried the following : > > enum Coll<T> { > A(f64,T), > B(f64,T) > } > > impl<T: Clone> Clone for Coll<T> { > fn clone (&self) -> Coll<T> { > match *self { > A(x,y) => A(x,y.clone()), > B(x,y) => B(x,y.clone()) > } > } > } > > but I got the error message : > > q.rs:9:13: 9:19 error: cannot move out of dereference of `&`-pointer > q.rs:9 A(x,y) => A(x,y.clone()), > ^~~~~~ > q.rs:10:13: 10:19 error: cannot move out of dereference of `&`-pointer > q.rs:10 B(x,y) => B(x,y.clone()) > ^~~~~~ > error: aborting due to 2 previous errors > > What do I need to do to fix the code above? Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > Rust-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev > _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev