Conditions, Recursion, and Loops

Loops and conditions within any programming language are a fundamental aspect of operation. You may be looping around a list attempting to find when something matches, and when a match occurs, branching out to perform some other task; or, you may just want to check a value to see whether it meets a condition. In any case, Rust allows you to do this.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Types of loop available
• Different types of branching within loops
• Recursive methods
• When the semicolon (;) can be omitted and what it means