scan-rules 0.1.1

This crate provides some macros for quickly parsing values out of text. Roughly speaking, it does the inverse of the print!/format! macros; or, in other words, a similar job to scanf from C.
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/*
Copyright ⓒ 2016 Daniel Keep.

Licensed under the MIT license (see LICENSE or <http://opensource.org
/licenses/MIT>) or the Apache License, Version 2.0 (see LICENSE of
<http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>), at your option. All
files in the project carrying such notice may not be copied, modified,
or distributed except according to those terms.
*/
#[macro_use] extern crate scan_rules;

use scan_rules::scanner::Word;

fn main() {
    print!("What's your name? ");
    let name: String = readln! { (let name: Word<String>) => name };
    //                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^ rule
    //                                                       ^~~^ body
    //                           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^ pattern
    //                            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^ variable binding

    print!("Hi, {}.  How old are you? ", name);
    readln! {
        (let age) => {
    //   ^~~~~~^ implicitly typed variable binding
            let age: i32 = age;
            println!("{} years old, huh?  Neat.", age);
        },
        (..other) => println!("`{}` doesn't *look* like a number...", other),
    //   ^~~~~~^ bind to any input "left over"
    }
}