These new APIs have had some time to bake now, and no pressing issues have come
up so they should be ok for stabilizing. Specifically, these two APIs were
stabilized:
* `slice::from_raw_parts`
* `slice::from_raw_parts_mut`
These new APIs have had some time to bake now, and no pressing issues have come
up so they should be ok for stabilizing. Specifically, these two APIs were
stabilized:
* `slice::from_raw_parts`
* `slice::from_raw_parts_mut`
Specifically, the following actions were taken:
* The `copy_memory` and `copy_nonoverlapping_memory` functions
to drop the `_memory` suffix (as it's implied by the functionality). Both
functions are now marked as `#[stable]`.
* The `set_memory` function was renamed to `write_bytes` and is now stable.
* The `zero_memory` function is now deprecated in favor of `write_bytes`
directly.
* The `Unique` pointer type is now behind its own feature gate called `unique`
to facilitate future stabilization.
* All type parameters now are `T: ?Sized` wherever possible and new clauses were
added to the `offset` functions to require that the type is sized.
[breaking-change]
Now that the necessary associated types exist for the `IntoIterator` trait this
commit stabilizes the trait as-is as well as all existing implementations.
`IntoIterator` now has an extra associated item:
``` rust
trait IntoIterator {
type Item;
type IntoIter: Iterator<Self=Self::Item>;
}
```
This lets you bind the iterator \"`Item`\" directly when writing generic functions:
``` rust
// hypothetical change, not included in this PR
impl Extend<T> for Vec<T> {
// you can now write
fn extend<I>(&mut self, it: I) where I: IntoIterator<Item=T> { .. }
// instead of
fn extend<I: IntoIterator>(&mut self, it: I) where I::IntoIter: Iterator<Item=T> { .. }
}
```
The downside is that now you have to write an extra associated type in your `IntoIterator` implementations:
``` diff
impl<T> IntoIterator for Vec<T> {
+ type Item = T;
type IntoIter = IntoIter<T>;
fn into_iter(self) -> IntoIter<T> { .. }
}
```
Because this breaks all downstream implementations of `IntoIterator`, this is a [breaking-change]
---
r? @aturon
This is in preparation for stabilization of the `IntoIterator` trait. All
implementations and references to `Iter` need to be renamed to `IntoIter`.
[breaking-change]
New functions, slice::from_raw_parts and slice::from_raw_parts_mut,
are added to implement the lifetime convention as agreed in RFC PR #556.
The functions slice::from_raw_buf and slice::from_raw_mut_buf are
left deprecated for the time being.
This commit deprecates `slice`, `slice_from`, `slice_to` and their
mutable variants in favor of slice notation.
The `as_slice` methods are left intact, for now.
[breaking-change]
This gets rid of the 'experimental' level, removes the non-staged_api
case (i.e. stability levels for out-of-tree crates), and lets the
staged_api attributes use 'unstable' and 'deprecated' lints.
This makes the transition period to the full feature staging design
a bit nicer.
