From 4360dfa126ba5d26a520e8a0d2dd9680081dad0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hedgehog1024 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 22:27:33 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Delete information about 'entry_and_modify' from Unstable book --- .../src/library-features/entry-and-modify.md | 77 ------------------- 1 file changed, 77 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 src/doc/unstable-book/src/library-features/entry-and-modify.md diff --git a/src/doc/unstable-book/src/library-features/entry-and-modify.md b/src/doc/unstable-book/src/library-features/entry-and-modify.md deleted file mode 100644 index 1280c71e83c..00000000000 --- a/src/doc/unstable-book/src/library-features/entry-and-modify.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,77 +0,0 @@ -# `entry_and_modify` - -The tracking issue for this feature is: [#44733] - -[#44733]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44733 - ------------------------- - -This introduces a new method for the Entry API of maps -(`std::collections::HashMap` and `std::collections::BTreeMap`), so that -occupied entries can be modified before any potential inserts into the -map. - -For example: - -```rust -#![feature(entry_and_modify)] -# fn main() { -use std::collections::HashMap; - -struct Foo { - new: bool, -} - -let mut map: HashMap<&str, Foo> = HashMap::new(); - -map.entry("quux") - .and_modify(|e| e.new = false) - .or_insert(Foo { new: true }); -# } -``` - -This is not possible with the stable API alone since inserting a default -_before_ modifying the `new` field would mean we would lose the default state: - -```rust -# fn main() { -use std::collections::HashMap; - -struct Foo { - new: bool, -} - -let mut map: HashMap<&str, Foo> = HashMap::new(); - -map.entry("quux").or_insert(Foo { new: true }).new = false; -# } -``` - -In the above code the `new` field will never be `true`, even though we only -intended to update that field to `false` for previously extant entries. - -To achieve the same effect as `and_modify` we would have to manually match -against the `Occupied` and `Vacant` variants of the `Entry` enum, which is -a little less user-friendly, and much more verbose: - -```rust -# fn main() { -use std::collections::HashMap; -use std::collections::hash_map::Entry; - -struct Foo { - new: bool, -} - -let mut map: HashMap<&str, Foo> = HashMap::new(); - -match map.entry("quux") { - Entry::Occupied(entry) => { - entry.into_mut().new = false; - }, - Entry::Vacant(entry) => { - entry.insert(Foo { new: true }); - }, -}; -# } -```