| An assignment operator was used on a non-place expression. |
| |
| Erroneous code examples: |
| |
| ```compile_fail,E0070 |
| struct SomeStruct { |
| x: i32, |
| y: i32, |
| } |
| |
| const SOME_CONST: i32 = 12; |
| |
| fn some_other_func() {} |
| |
| fn some_function() { |
| SOME_CONST = 14; // error: a constant value cannot be changed! |
| 1 = 3; // error: 1 isn't a valid place! |
| some_other_func() = 4; // error: we cannot assign value to a function! |
| SomeStruct::x = 12; // error: SomeStruct a structure name but it is used |
| // like a variable! |
| } |
| ``` |
| |
| The left-hand side of an assignment operator must be a place expression. A |
| place expression represents a memory location and can be a variable (with |
| optional namespacing), a dereference, an indexing expression or a field |
| reference. |
| |
| More details can be found in the [Expressions] section of the Reference. |
| |
| [Expressions]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/expressions.html#places-rvalues-and-temporaries |
| |
| And now let's give working examples: |
| |
| ``` |
| struct SomeStruct { |
| x: i32, |
| y: i32, |
| } |
| let mut s = SomeStruct { x: 0, y: 0 }; |
| |
| s.x = 3; // that's good ! |
| |
| // ... |
| |
| fn some_func(x: &mut i32) { |
| *x = 12; // that's good ! |
| } |
| ``` |