When working at my forthcoming Rust Win32 library, I was frustrated with the unergonomic task of cloning all the objects before referencing them inside a closure. The basic problem goes like this:
let a = a.clone(); let b = b.clone(); stuff.do_something(|| { a.foo(); b.bar(); });
It would be nice to have some kind of syntactic sugar. Then at some point I saw an example that led me to use destructuring, very familiar from my JavaScript experience:
let (a, b) = (a.clone(), b.clone()); stuff.do_something(|| { a.foo(); b.bar(); });
After that, it came to my mind that I could write a macro for that. After about a half hour wrapping my head around the concept, I finally came up with a macro to clone many objects at once:
macro_rules! clone { ( $($obj: expr),+ ) => {{ ( $( $obj.clone() ),+ ) }}; }
Which finally allowed me to write the most sugary version of all:
let (a, b) = clone!(a, b); stuff.do_something(|| { a.foo(); b.bar(); });
Testable in the Rust Playground.