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English
Etymology
From turbo- + fish; coined by Anna Harren in 2015,[1][2][3] originally in jest, later adopted by official documentation.
Pronunciation
Noun
turbofish (plural turbofishes)
- (programming) A syntactic element in Rust,
::<>, with arguments between < and >, that specifies the generic arguments of a function in an expression.
2017 November 21, Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN:For static method calls, you can supply the type parameter explicitly using the turbofish ::<> notation:
2019 January 31, Rahul Sharma, Vesa Kaihlavirta, Mastering Rust, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 122:The turbofish operator in generic functions appears right after the function name and before the parenthesis.
2021 June 30, Herbert Wolverson, Hands-on Rust, Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN:You can add a turbofish to a function call with the syntax function::<Type>(). For example, collect::<Vec<MyType>>().
References
Further reading
- “Paths in expressions”, in The Rust Reference, 2019