Enums in Rust are powerful and versatile, and when combined with pattern matching, they become even more effective.
Here’s a simple example of how you can use enums and the match statement to
handle different directions:
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Enums in Rust are a powerful tool that become even more effective when combined with pattern matching. The post provides a simple example using enums and the match statement to handle different directions.

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Little better approach is to implemet the display (or derive the debug) trait for the enum, so you can wrap the match statement inside the trait and don’t have to call the function when you want to use print() to display the value (the {} operator inside the string format will automatically try to trigger this trait).
The function body remains the same but it’s lot more convinient.