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Struct

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A struct in Rust allows you to create a new data type made up of values from other data types. So far, we’ve worked with primitives–things built into the language—​like an i32. But we can combine these primitives into larger, custom types. In this case, I want to define a new data type called Fruit that tells me how many apples and bananas I have. Let’s see what that looks like:

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struct Fruit {
    apples: i32,
    bananas: i32,
}

struct starts a declaration, similar to how fn starts a declaration. In the case of fn, we’re declaring a new function name. In the case of a struct, we’re declaring a new type name. In this case, our ...