5.1 Misleading description of what happens when Creating Instances from Other Instances

[djlondon]

The sentence here describing what happens to user1 after it's used to created user2 is inaccurate:

In this example, we can no longer use user1 after creating user2 because the String in the username field of user1 was moved into user2

This suggests that the entire user1 struct is now unusable, but it is not:

let user1 = User {
    email: String::from("[email protected]"),
    username: String::from("someusername123"),
    active: true,
    sign_in_count: 1,
};

let user2 = User {
    email: String::from("[email protected]"),
    ..user1
};

println!("{} {}", user1.active, user1.email); // user1 is still usable

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I think a better description would be:

In this example, we can no longer use user1.username after creating user2 because the String in the username field of user1 was moved into user2

[masterchess33]

Agree. The original sentence is misleading.