I've (naively) tried this, but it doesn't print anything to the screen:
macro_rules! foo {
($suffix:tt, $arg:expr) => {
concat!("foo", $suffix, "(", $arg, ")");
};
}
fn foo_i32(x: i32) {
println!("i32 {}", x);
}
fn foo_bool(x: bool) {
println!("bool {}", x);
}
fn main() {
foo!("bool", true);
foo!("i32", 1);
}
Yes, and no.
First of, concat!
generates a string, so your code is essentially the same as if you wrote:
fn main() {
"foobool(true)";
"fooi32(1)";
}
which is a no-op.
To generate Rust code, the macro does not need to involve strings at all:
macro_rules! foo {
($suffix:tt, $arg:expr) => {
$suffix($arg);
};
}
which you could call as foo!(foo_bool, true);
.
If however you want to construct the name foo_bool
from foo
and bool
, you need to use concat_idents
, which is currently unstable and unlikely to get stable any time soon (because it causes some hygiene issues):
#![feature(concat_idents)]
macro_rules! foo {
($suffix:tt, $arg:expr) => {
concat_idents!(foo_, $suffix)($arg);
};
}
fn foo_i32(x: i32) {
println!("i32 {}", x);
}
fn foo_bool(x: bool) {
println!("bool {}", x);
}
fn main() {
foo!(bool, true);
foo!(i32, 1);
}