Opening new block of code just to borrow_mut?

[slawosz]

Hi,
I am currently learning rust, which is painful process. Among others, currently trying to understand why we are using Rc,RefCell and other goodies.
I encountered such example (last example from std::rc - Rust):

fn main() {
   //snip

    // Add the `Gadget`s to their `Owner`.
    {
        let mut gadgets = gadget_owner.gadgets.borrow_mut();
        gadgets.push(Rc::downgrade(&gadget1));
        gadgets.push(Rc::downgrade(&gadget2));

        // `RefCell` dynamic borrow ends here.
    }

   // snip
}

My question is:

• is it common practice in Rust production grade code to open new block just to borrow_mut() something?

If the question doesn't make sense, sorry for inconvinience - still learning....

(Playground)

[kpreid]

You can also use drop(gadgets);. But the block, while more verbose, has the benefit of making it visually obvious which code is borrowing gadget_owner.gadgets — that's the scope in which you need to make sure not to call another function that might want to borrow gadget_owner.gadgets again.

Also note that a {} block just for this purpose is only necessary when there isn't any other block (like an if or a function's body) that is already an appropriate scope.