It's a rather useful syntax, and non-obvious.
A friend of mine is learning Rust and was trying to find a way to easily do such an initialization — he couldn't find it in the guide and was pretty surprised when I showed him. Looks like something that should be mentioned.
r? @steveklabnik
The sentence "The new iterator `filter()` produces returns only the elements that that closure returned `true` for:" can be structured as:
"The new iterator `filter()` produces only the elements that that closure returned `true` for:"
or as:
"The new iterator `filter()` returns only the elements that that closure returned `true` for:"
however, not both.
I went with "produces", since it then talks about returning true and having "return" so close together doesn't sound nice.
r @steveklabnik ?
Because I'm still 😷😷😷 , I figured some mindless tasks would be better than trying to finish the ownership guide.
The manual has long been waiting for some ❤️❤️❤️ , and so I gave it a quick once-over. I made small commits in case any of the changes are a bit weird, I mostly did a few things:
1. changed 'manual' to 'reference.' I feel like this name is better. If it's not, It's not a huge deal. it shouldn't be `rust.md` though.
2. word wrapped everything appropriately. Changes 1&2 are in the first commit, so that its' easier to see the changes in the later ones.
3. fixed other small style issues
4. removed references to things that are in the standard library, and not the language itself
There's still lots of gross in here, but I didn't want to pile on too too many changes.
/cc @brson @nikomatsakis
See: http://doc.rust-lang.org/std/from_str/trait.FromStr.html
```
let input_num = from_str::<Option<uint>>("5");
```
```
<anon>:2:21: 2:45 error: failed to find an implementation of trait std::from_str::FromStr for core::option::Option<uint>
<anon>:2 let input_num = from_str::<Option<uint>>("5");
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
```
This is just true of all of Rust, and doesn't make a lot of sense now.
Especially as we move towards finalizing things, I think it's time for
this to go.
The implementation essentially desugars during type collection and AST
type conversion time into the parameter scheme we have now. Only fully
qualified names--e.g. `<T as Foo>::Bar`--are supported.
