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Trait bounds

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- [Instructor] Although we've encountered them briefly in several earlier examples, I want to take a moment to more formally address the concept of trait bounds. When working with generics, you'll often need to use traits to serve as bounds to stipulate the functionality a type implements. Bounding restricts a generic to only data types that conform to those bounds so you can write functions that accept many different data types while also guaranteeing that the types it accepts will have the necessary behaviors for your function to use it. Consider the print_type function shown here on line three, which accepts an input item of some generic type T and then prints a message with its data type by using the any module's type_name function, which returns the name of a given type as a string slice. Since we're passing the input item as a parameter to the print line macro on line four, for this function to work, that given item…

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