use std::mem; fn analyze_slice(slice: &[i32]) { println!("first element of the slice: {}", slice[0]); println!("the slice has {} elements", slice.len()); } fn main() { let xs: [i32; 5] = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; let ys: [i32; 500] = [0; 500]; println!("first element of the array: {}", xs[0]); println!("second element of the array: {}", xs[1]); println!("number of elements in the array: {}", xs.len()); println!("array occupies {} bytes", mem::size_of_val(&xs)); println!("borrow the whole array as a slice"); analyze_slice(&xs); println!("borrow a section of the array as a slice"); analyze_slice(&ys[1..4]); let empty_array: [u32; 0] = []; assert_eq!(&empty_array, &[]); assert_eq!(&empty_array, &[][..]); for i in 0..xs.len() + 1 { match xs.get(i) { Some(xval) => println!("{}: {}", i, xval), None => println!("Slow down! {} is too far!", i), } } }