Is there a better way access a same-type enum value than a match?

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Is there a better way to access the contents of an Enum that in the various cases shares the same variable type?
At the moment I have solved it this way:

enum Token<'a> {
    Word(&'a str),
    Reserved(&'a str),
    Whitespace(&'a str),
}

impl<'a> ToString for Token<'a> {
    fn to_string(&self) -> String {
        match self {
            Self::Word(str) | Self::Reserved(str) | Self::Whitespace(str) => str.to_string(),
        }
    }
}
rust match traits enums
1 Answers

Not with this implementation. But you could (and maybe should) instead have

enum TokenKind {
    Word,
    Reserved,
    Whitespace,
}

struct Token<'a> {
  string: &'a str, 
  kind: TokenKind
}

This is more extensible, and less code duplication.

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