The `each_line` function in `ReaderUtil` acts very differently to equivalent functions in Python, Ruby, Clojure etc. E.g. given a file `t` with contents `trailing\nnew line\n` and `n` containing `no trailing\nnew line`:
Rust:
```Rust
t: ~[~"trailing", ~"new line", ~""]
n: ~[~"no trailing", ~"new line"]
```
Python:
```Python
>>> open('t').readlines()
['trailing\n', 'new line\n']
>>> open('n').readlines()
['no trailing\n', 'new line']
```
Ruby:
```Ruby
irb(main):001:0> File.readlines('t')
=> ["trailing\n", "new line\n"]
irb(main):002:0> File.readlines('n')
=> ["no trailing\n", "new line"]
```
Clojure
```Clojure
user=> (read-lines "t")
("trailing" "new line")
user=> (read-lines "n")
("no trailing" "new line")
```
The extra string that rust includes at the end is inconsistent, and means that it is impossible to distinguish between the "real" empty line a file that ends `...\n\n`, and the "fake" one after the last `\n`.
The code attached makes Rust's `each_line` act like Clojure (and PHP, i.e. not including the `\n`), as well as adjusting `str::lines` to fix the trailing empty line problem.
Also, add a convenience `read_lines` method to read all the lines in a file into a vector.
Specifically, `lines` and `each_line` will not emit a trailing empty string
when given "...\n". Also, add `read_lines`, which just collects all of
`each_line` into a vector, and `split_*_no_trailing` which will is the
generalised version of `lines`.
7.3x speedup in string map search speed on a microbenchmark of pure hashmap
searching against a constant string, due to the lack of allocations.
I ran into a few snags.
1. The way the coherence check is set up, I can't implement `Equiv<@str>` and
`Equiv<~str>` for `&str` simultaneously.
2. I wanted to implement `Equiv<T>` for all `T:Eq` (i.e. every type can be
compared to itself if it implements `Eq`), but the coherence check didn't
like that either.
3. I couldn't add this to the `Map` trait because `LinearMap` needs special
handling for its `Q` type parameter: it must not only implement `Equiv<T>`
but also `Hash` and `Eq`.
4. `find_equiv(&&"foo")` doesn't parse, because of the double ampersand. It has
to be written `find_equiv(& &"foo")`. We can probably just fix this.
Nevertheless, this is a huge win; it should address a major source of
performance problems, including the one here:
http://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2013/02/creating-letterpress-cheating-program.html
This allows `TreeMap`/`TreeSet` to fully express their requirements and reduces the comparisons from ~1.5 per level to 1 which really helps for string keys.
I also added `ReverseIter` to the prelude exports because I forgot when I originally added it.