In an attempt to phase out the std::num::strconv module's string formatting
functionality, this commit reimplements some provided methods for formatting
integers on top of format!() instead of the custom (and slower) implementation
inside of num::strconv.
Primarily, this deprecates int_to_str_bytes_common
1. Wherever the `buf` field of a `Formatter` was used, the `Formatter` is used
instead.
2. The usage of `write_fmt` is minimized as much as possible, the `write!` macro
is preferred wherever possible.
3. Usage of `fmt::write` is minimized, favoring the `write!` macro instead.
This commit moves all possible functionality from the standard library's string
formatting utilities into the core library. This is a breaking change, due to a
few tweaks in the semantics of formatting:
1. In order to break the dependency on the std::io module, a new trait,
FormatWriter was introduced in core::fmt. This is the trait which is used
(instead of Writer) to format data into a stream.
2. The new FormatWriter trait has one method, write(), which takes some bytes
and can return an error, but the error contains very little information. The
intent for this trait is for an adaptor writer to be used around the standard
library's Writer trait.
3. The fmt::write{,ln,_unsafe} methods no longer take &mut io::Writer, but
rather &mut FormatWriter. Since this trait is less common, all functions were
removed except fmt::write, and it is not intended to be invoked directly.
The main API-breaking change here is that the fmt::Formatter structure will no
longer expose its `buf` field. All previous code writing directly to `f.buf`
using writer methods or the `write!` macro will now instead use `f` directly.
The Formatter object itself implements the `Writer` trait itself for
convenience, although it does not implement the `FormatWriter` trait. The
fallout of these changes will be in the following commits.
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