turbofish

plural turbofishes

1. computingA syntactic element in Rust, ::<>, with arguments between < and >, that specifies the generic arguments of a function in an expression.

   For static method calls, you can supply the type parameter explicitly using the turbofish ::<> notation:

   2017 November 21, Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN

   2 more examples

   The turbofish operator in generic functions appears right after the function name and before the parenthesis.

   2019 January 31, Rahul Sharma, Vesa Kaihlavirta, Mastering Rust, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 122

   You can add a turbofish to a function call with the syntax function::<Type>(). For example, collect::<Vec<MyType>>().

   2021 June 30, Herbert Wolverson, Hands-on Rust, Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN